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Writing Acceptance Criteria
It is your duty as a tester to review the Acceptance Criteria section, signing off on the document only when it meets your approval. This article offers an introduction to the process of writing acceptance criteria and ensuring that all the needs presented in a given Functional Specification document are represented in the Acceptance Criteria section.
It may be the case that you are testing a Functional Specification with pre-written acceptance criteria. If this is the case, please use this article as a general guide to ensuring that the criteria as written provide full coverage of the needs expressed in the Functional Specification document. If you are not satisfied that the Acceptance Criteria section is complete, please feel free to create additional criteria to cover all the needs you identify in the Functional Specification document.
Purpose
The purpose of the Acceptance Criteria section is to ensure that all functionality requested in a Functional Specification document are collected into quantifiable statements. Acceptance criteria should summarize all the operations requested from the software.
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