Define completion clearly
Agree what a feature must do, how it will be tested, and what remains outside scope. Clear acceptance criteria help the team review delivery without relying on subjective impressions. Leave the team with a decision, an owner, and a review date.
Use controlled migrations, monitoring, and rollback steps. Test a release against existing records rather than only an empty development database. Use the findings to update the brief for the next stage.
Integration boundaries
Document APIs, authentication, failure handling, and data ownership. Test slow responses and unavailable external systems, not just the successful path. Confirm the output, owner, and review date for each task.
Test representative devices, permissions, interrupted connections, and failed inputs. Define acceptance checks with the people who will use the product. Review the whole path instead of judging one screen in isolation.
- Current accounts and assets
- Verified business information
- Customer questions
- Budget and team capacity
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