User-oriented acceptance testing: an agile context for document management projects

Abstract

Acceptance tests represent the phase of the software development life cycle in which the development team and the user area of an information system must ensure that the developed system fullfils the defined requirements. In multidisciplinary teams, like is the case of document management systems that involve filmmakers, archivists and computer engineers among others, this is a phase that must be properly planned and must provide the most suitable management mechanisms to ensure proper execution. This paper presents the adaptation of an agile mechanism based on the Scrum methodology, giving high importance to this phase. So, it is proposed to perform this phase incrementally, preventing this phase to be executed only at the end of development and providing mecha-nisms for early detection of functional inconsistencies. This approach has been developed within the context of THOT (Innovation project management applied to document records of recruitment services and transport infrastructure projects), developed by the University of Seville for the Public Works Agency project of the Junta de Andalucía.