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acceptance testing
  • to decide whether software is of sufficient quality either to purchase or to pay a custom developer
  • to choose between several competing generic products
Testing performed by customers, on their own initiative, to decide whether software is sufficiently acceptable to pay forcustomers on their own initiativetesting performed by users and clients

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