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During the testing phase of a new inventory system, the vendor's team runs the software in a controlled environment, and then selected end-users of Sundaram Traders run it with real business scenarios to confirm that it meets their requirements before accepting it. The second activity is best described as:
The activity is user acceptance testing. End-users run the system with real business scenarios to confirm it meets their requirements and decide whether to accept it. Unit, regression and stress testing are technical checks done by developers or testers, not acceptance by users.
- AUser acceptance testingCorrect
- BUnit testing
- CRegression testing
- DStress testing
Explanation
User acceptance testing is performed by the intended users with realistic scenarios to decide whether the system satisfies business requirements and can be accepted. Unit testing checks individual modules by developers, regression testing checks that changes have not broken existing functions, and stress testing checks behaviour under extreme load.
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