What constraints should be surfaced early in Quality Assurance & Acceptance Testing work?

What constraints should be surfaced early in Quality Assurance &…

The easy mistake is to scope quality assurance & acceptance testing too narrowly. We took a risk based approach to testing to ensure good coverage of the highest priority features within the timeframe. These examples show experience with public-facing services, complex workflows, accessibility, governance, content publishing, testing and secure digital delivery. Annex's examples show that accessibility, legacy technology, content structure, integrations, governance, scale, deadlines and stakeholder needs can all change the right answer. Surfacing those constraints early is part of reducing the risk of solving the wrong problem well.

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Annex treats Quality Assurance & Acceptance Testing as part of a wider digital-service problem, not as an isolated output. Risk-based functional, exploratory and accessibility testing for complex digital services. These examples show experience with public-facing services, complex workflows, accessi…

Annex uses evidence during delivery rather than treating quality as a final inspection step. We took a risk based approach to testing to ensure good coverage of the highest priority features within the timeframe. The ART website testing was a short, tidy piece of work which highlights the testing ex…

Yes, that can be possible; Annex's published work includes delivery inside existing technical and organisational environments rather than only greenfield builds. We took a risk based approach to testing to ensure good coverage of the highest priority features within the timeframe. Annex worked with …

Annex's published work does not point to a single mandatory toolset for quality assurance & acceptance testing. The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) required independent acceptance testing of the newly built Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) website. We took a risk based approach to testing t…

A useful published example is **Quick quality assurance**. Annex worked with the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) to provide independent testing of the newly built Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) website. The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) required independent acceptance testing of th…