Step 5.1 Test the deliverables
If you are responsible for a project, it is right for your customer to expect you to manage it to produce deliverables that work, and which meet all the requirements agreed. To do this you may need to test the deliverables. There are many ways to do this, and the testing required depends entirely on the type of deliverable. How you test a new car is completely different from how you test computer software, or from how you would test a new building you had just built. However, each deliverable should be tested before you are completely confident they meet your expectations.
Whilst the actual tests vary between deliverables, there are some generic questions you need to ask to test any set of deliverables:
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