Introducing XP—XP Practice 7.2: Acceptance Testing

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Acceptance Testing

Acceptance testing in parallel with coding also provides a huge benefit to the project. Often, nuances about a user story that weren’t apparent during the creation of the user story are discovered during acceptance testing. Developers can catch such issues early in development and make the necessary changes immediately. In traditional development life cycles, these issues would be caught later and would require more complicated and costly changes.

These testing practices will deliver production-ready code at the end of every iteration. Customers can deliver the system to production as soon as they feel there is enough business functionality. Using traditional development methodologies, this would never be possible because this type of testing does not occur until the end of the development life cycle.