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Overview of Executing Integration and Acceptance Tests

The processes of executing integration and acceptance tests are designed to verify that the Siebel application can properly communicate with other applications or components in the system, support end-to-end business processes, and will be accepted by the user community. This is a very busy and exciting phase of any project, because it marks a point where the system is nearing deployment.

The three major pieces involved in executing integration and acceptance tests processes are as follows:

• Testing integrations with the Siebel application. In most customer deployments, the Siebel application integrates with several other applications or components. Integration testing focuses on these touch points with third-party applications, network infrastructure, and integration middleware.
• Functional testing of business processes. Required business processes must be tested end-to-end to verify that transactions are handled appropriately across component, application, and integration logic. It is important to push a representative set of transaction data through the system and follow all branches of required business processes.
• Testing system acceptance with users. User acceptance testing allows system users to use the system to perform simulated work. This phase of testing makes sure that users will be able to use the system effectively once it is live.