User acceptance testing

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UAT, or “user acceptance testing” is the process whereby an IT department ensures new software it would like to impose on the workforce but which users neither want, understand nor care about, will not be so disruptive, annoying or useless that users rise up in outright rebellion.

A User. Doesn't he look happy.

“Acceptance” implies tolerance, not enjoyment. Forbearance. Sufferance. Coming to terms. Sacrifice for the greater good: after all, when one says “I have accepted my fate” one does not necessarily mean one is happy about it. So it is with user acceptance testing.

It is not called “user appreciation assurance”, or “user experience enhancement”, or “user productivity maximisation”, for a reason. It is not about the [tron.wikia.com/wiki/User users].


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