Acceptance testing

As explained in Django in Action

An acceptance test verifies that software satisfies requirements from the perspective of an expected feature or user outcome.

Acceptance testing verifies that a feature performs the action required by its requirements. It is also called behavioral testing because it maps tests to user-facing behavior and acceptance criteria in a user story. section 8.1.1 section 8.10

Place acceptance testing in the testing hierarchy:

• Unit tests check a single component; integration tests check several components working together. section 8.1.1
• Acceptance tests check whether a defined feature works as designed, often through a user-facing process. section 8.10
• UI tests interact with the interface like a user; their boundary with acceptance tests can be blurry. section 8.1.1
• Cucumber is a popular framework specifically associated with this level of testing. section 8.1.1

Figure 8.1 Hierarchy of testing categories

Use the testing-category hierarchy to compare acceptance testing with unit, integration, and UI testing. section 8.1.1

How Django in Action covers it

How deep it goes

Defines feature-level behavior and its place in the testing pyramid, but does not detail implementation procedures.

Examples

Uses a shipping-cost page with varied addresses and shipping zones to illustrate the cost of higher-level testing.

What it assumes

Assumes a defined feature and acceptance criteria, while distinguishing them from lower-level component and integration checks.

What you can do after

Evaluate whether a defined feature works as designed from a requirements-oriented, often user-facing perspective.

How it connects

Connects acceptance criteria, user stories, behavioral testing, integration testing, unit testing, UI testing, and Cucumber.

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  BDD in Action, Second EditionAn acceptance test verifies that software satisfies agreed behavioral and business requirements.
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Related concepts

• testkind of · A test is a procedure or check that evaluates behavior using specified inputs or evidence against expected results or criteria.
• requirementsuses · A requirement is a stated need, capability, quality, condition, or constraint that a system, product, solution, or project is expected to satisfy.
• executable specificationproduced by · An executable specification is a machine-runnable description of expected system behavior that can automatically verify whether an implementation satisfies its requirements.
• Jestuses · Jest is a JavaScript testing framework for defining, running, and asserting automated tests.
• testing pyramidpart of · The testing pyramid is a software-testing model that favors many fast, focused lower-level tests and progressively fewer, broader, slower tests at higher levels.

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