user acceptance tester

Meanings

1. 1nouncountablebusinesscomputing

   A person whose job is to check whether new software does what real users need before it is released.

   Grammar: Countable, so you can say a user acceptance tester or two user acceptance testers.

   Patterns

   • work as a user acceptance tester
   • a user acceptance tester for a company
   • hire a user acceptance tester

   She worked as a user acceptance tester for a bank before moving into project management.

   The company hired two user acceptance testers to check the new booking system.

   As a user acceptance tester, he follows written scenarios and reports every problem he finds.

2. 2nouncountablecomputing

   A piece of software or a tool used to run these checks automatically.

   Grammar: Used for tools as well as people; the context usually makes it clear which is meant.

   Patterns

   • run a user acceptance tester
   • configure a user acceptance tester

   The team set up a user acceptance tester that runs the same scenarios every night.

   Our user acceptance tester flagged a bug in the payment screen.

Word forms

Common combinations

user acceptance testing

User acceptance testing starts next week, so the developers are freezing the code.

run a test

Testers run each test twice to make sure the result is the same.

report a bug

She reported a bug in the login page on her first day.

software release

No release goes out until the software release has passed acceptance checks.

test scenario

Each test scenario describes one task a real user would try to do.

Synonyms and how they differ

UAT tester

The short, informal form of the same job title, very common inside software teams.

quality assurance engineer

A wider job that covers many kinds of testing, not only checking against user needs.

beta tester

An ordinary user who tries unfinished software, rather than an employee paid to test it.

Word family

user acceptance testing noun

The activity of checking software against real user needs.

test verb

To try something in order to see whether it works.

tester noun

Anyone whose job is to test products or software.

Commonly confused: user acceptance tester or user experience designer?

Practice

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