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User Acceptance Testing


Background

I am a professional user acceptance tester of six years. Three of those years have been in a Project Leader Role. Full details of my career in UAT can be found in my CV.

If you look in the references section of this document (at the end) you will find a reference from my Executive Manager, the Compliance Officer of the company. This reference details not only my abilities in the role of UAT, but also my management experience, which occurred over a nine month period in 1995, when my Manager was unexpectedly very ill, and was off work for nine months.

I am currently in full time employment with Royal Liver Assurance Limited, a financial services company. However, I am also interested in moving onwards and upwards. If you are looking for a highly motivated and creative Project Leader, with superb experience in the field, then contact me.

I am contactable by mobile phone (0973 249507) or by e-mail

The field of User Acceptance Testing is a large one, so to make this site more easily navigable (and also to make it easier for me to create it - lol) I have created the sections shown below. Note that some of the links are not activated, this is because I haven't finished yet!

User Acceptance Testing Pages in this Site

My ICQ Software Testers Group

My Software Testers Discussion Forum and Message Board

What is UAT?

Crafting of testing environment

Creation of testing strategies

Sign offs

Links to other testing resources on the WWW

 

Software Testing Books

Note about books. Yes - This is an amazon affliate program, and I do get a small cut. However, that is not the reason these books are here. I provide this listing as part of "the service" - testing is an important subject - and these books are good reading on the subject. I offer all my own content free - unfortunately you have to pay for these 8>).

Any monies I get from Amazon (and it isn't a lot - I assure you) goes towards helping me keep the site going. It's probably best described as my "get ever so slightly richer - incredibly slowly scheme" - can I talk you into this MLM scheme? 8>)

Anyway - just wanted to be honest with you - have a look at the books, there are some really good ones. The obvious ommission is "Testing Computer Software" by Cem Kaner. An excellent book - but Amazon don't have it any more (they used to - it's where I got my copy). You'll have to try somewhere else.

Some of the best books on software testing. All the images are clickable, and are reviewed on the Amazon site

The Art of Software Testing
Gelnford Myers

Black Box Testing
Boris Beizer

Effective Methods for Software Testing
William Perry

Survivng the Challenges of Software Testing

Dynamics of Software Development

Software Testing in the Real World

Practical Software Metrics

Complete Guide to Software Testing
William Hetzel

Testing Client/Server Systems
Kelly C. Bourne

Managing the Testing Process
R. Black

Automated Software Testing

Client/Server Testing on the Desktop & Web
Daniel Mosley

Test Process Improvement
Koomen & Pol

The Craft of Software Testing
Brian Marick

Object Oriented Software Testing
Siegel & Muller

     


Analysis Techniques

Of course, test analysis comprises of two parts - Testing (see above) and Analysis. Having used both structured and object oriented analysis techniques, and found both to have their own merits, I have also shown below some of the best analysis technique books. Please note that for some reason, Amazon seems to only show the covers of the OO books - this is their bias not mine (I presume it is because the OO books sell more - but thats only a guess)

UML Distilled
Fowler & Scott

UML User Guide
Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh

Introduction to OO Analysis
David Brown

OO Systems Amalysis and Design
Ronald Norman

OO Analysis and Design using UML

OO Analysis
Youdon and Coad

Analysis Patterns
Martin Fowler

Practical SSADM Version 4+

Systems Analysis And Design

 

Introducing SSADM 4+ Essence of Structured Systems Analysis Techniques      

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