User Acceptance Testing for SAP: Planning, Running and Signing Off

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UAT planning to sign-off checklist

• Scope agreed per process owner: processes, variants, roles, testers, exclusions with reasons.
• Every tester has a user with production-like roles and has passed the logon test.
• Scripts walked through; each step has data and an observable expected result.
• Test cases Prepared, grouped into test plans with testers and dates; plan set to In Testing.
• Evidence per step: document numbers, outputs, screenshots that let a reviewer re-find the transaction.
• Daily triage: owner, severity, next action and workaround for every new defect.
• Daily report by process area: executed, passed, failed, blocked, open defects by severity, fixed awaiting retest.
• Escalate against agreed thresholds, with options and the decision needed.
• Sign-off pack: scope, coverage, results, open defects, accepted risks, recommendation, signatures.
• Record each decision as accept, accept with conditions or not accept, with owners and dates.