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| Analyze User Acceptance Test Results ( 3 : VAL : 2 : 2.2 ) Release Manager
Activity: Analyze User Acceptance Test Results
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### Overview Evaluate user acceptance test results against a set of acceptance criteria. This should include the critical to quality (CTQ) factors defined during the envision track at the beginning of the project life cycle. CTQs are sometimes called "overall goodness factors" (or OGFs). # Entry Criteria Release Acceptance Criteria The criteria for evaluating a release candidate as acceptable. User Acceptance Test Results The results from user acceptance testing. # Sub-Activities
1 | Evaluate User Acceptance Test Results | Evaluate the user acceptance test results against the release acceptance criteria. Include the CTQ factors defined at the beginning of the life cycle.
2 | Summarize Results | Summarize the results with a recommendation for promotion to release or reject and request a new candidate.
3 | Promote for Release | Optional Promote the acceptable release candidate for release.
# Exit Criteria
| The build is promoted to "proposed for release."
| The release candidate was unacceptable and a new candidate should be selected and retested.
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