Our patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume 1 (Beta 2) is now available on CodePlex.  The working definition that the team is using for acceptance testing is the planned evaluation of a system by customers and customer proxies to assess to what degree it satisfies their expectations.

Common Scenarios
Here are the key scenarios the guide addresses:

• How to Plan for Acceptance Testing
• What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run
• How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests
• Defining What “Done” Means
• How to Justify Your Approach
• How to Streamline Your Acceptance Process

Parts

• Part I - Thinking About Acceptance
• Part II - Perspectives on Acceptance
• Part III - Acceptance Software

Chapters

• Chapter 1            The Acceptance Process
• Chapter 2            Decision-Making Model
• Chapter 3            Project Context Model
• Chapter 4            System Requirements Model
• Chapter 5            Risk Model
• Chapter 6            Doneness Model
• Chapter 7            Business Lead’s Perspective
• Chapter 8            Product Manager’s Perspective
• Chapter 9            Test Manager’s Perspective
• Chapter 10          Development Manager’s Perspective
• Chapter 11          User Experience Specialist’s Perspective
• Chapter 12          Operations Manager’s Perspective
• Chapter 13          Solution Architect’s Perspective
• Chapter 14          Enterprise Architect’s Perspective
• Chapter 15          Legal Perspective
• Chapter 16          Planning for Acceptance
• Chapter 17          Assessing Software
• Chapter 18          Managing the Acceptance Process
• Chapter 19          Streamlining the Acceptance Process

Team
Here is the authoring team:

• Grigori Melnik
• Gerard Meszaros
• Jon Bach

Contributors / Reviewers
Here are the key contributors and reviewers:

• Michael Puleio
• Rohit Sharma
• RoAnn Corbisier
• Hakan Erdogmus
• Dennis DeWitt

Key Links

• Codeplex Site - http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance