User Acceptance Testing

For years, User Acceptance Test (UAT) has been synonymous with screen testing. This is logical because for years most of the user experience was what was on the screen. With today’s integrated systems, validating the user experience means going behind the screens to ensure the user’s data has been recorded into downstream applications correctly.

Therefore, UAT needs to be defined as more than simply screens. UAT teams need easy, automated ways of accessing the behind the screens information flow for validation. By using Solstice’s recording capability to create back-end tests, UAT teams can develop detailed tests to expose critical data that is important to users but is displayed on screens. Further, once errors are found, the detailed back-end test can pinpoint exactly where and what has caused a problem. Solstice gives UAT teams the increased visibility demanded by today’s integrated systems.