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Pass/fail tests used to define whether or not a feature is functioning correctly, usually developed in parallel to the defining of the feature. These tests may be written in plain English by the customer or product owner (“The user clicks , the session is reset, and the user is redirected to the homepage”).
Ideally, an acceptance test is subsequently automated by the developer so that it can easily run on all iterations of the software, ensuring that the accepted feature has not been broken by newer development. The use of acceptance tests in subsequent iterations is also known as regression testing. Acceptance testing is a key feature of test-driven development (TDD) .
In scrum: scrum does not specify testing methods, and testing is not a part of the scrum framework. This said, most scrum teams test, and within the scrum framework the product owner would be the appropriate person to define acceptance tests.
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