What is Operational Testing Or Operational Acceptance Testing ?

Operational testing or Operational acceptance testing is a testing approach which is executed to confirm the operational or functional readiness (pre-release or beta release) of any application or product during testing as a section of ‘Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) . This approach of testing primarily concentrates on functional readiness of the application or product, which is assumed to simulate the production environment.

Different Types Of Operational Acceptance Testing :-

There are several types of ‘Operational Acceptance Testing’. Few of them are mentioned below:-

•  Functional Documentation Study
•  Code Study
•  Installation Testing
•  Environment Operational Testing
•  Load And Performance Testing
•  Security Testing
•  Backup Testing And Restore Testing
•  Recovery Testing
•  Fall Over Testing
•  Monitoring Testing (As per service level agreement)
•  End-To-End Testing
•  Performance, Stress & Volume Testing
•  Portability Testing

Operational Acceptance Testing Approach:-

There are many approaches for the operational acceptance testing, few of them is mentioned below:-

• Design the system
• Evaluate the design
• Build the system to simulate the production environment
• Deploy to the build
• Acceptability of the system
• Evaluate operability and supportability of the system
• Validation for backup or recovery method