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Operational acceptance testing

Also called: OAT, Operational testing

Checking a system is ready to run and be supported in production: backups, monitoring, recovery.

Definition

It answers 'can we operate this?' rather than 'does it work for users?'. It's usually done by operations or platform teams.

In practice

The team restores last night's database backup to confirm recovery actually works before launch.

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