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Acceptance criteria

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCore term

In product management, acceptance criteria means: The specific conditions a user story must meet before the team and the product owner accept it as finished and working correctly.

In Turkish: kabul kriterleri, kabul koşulları

How it is used

Written under each user story, often in the Given/When/Then format: given a logged-in user, when they tap Save, then the item appears in their list. Testers use acceptance criteria to check the work before it is accepted.

Example sentences

  1. The acceptance criteria say the export must include deleted orders.

  2. Please add acceptance criteria before we estimate this story.

Common collocations

  • write acceptance criteria
  • meet the acceptance criteria
  • clear acceptance criteria
  • list of acceptance criteria
  • user storyA short description of a feature written from the user's point of view, usually in the form “As a [type of user], I want [goal] so that [benefit].”
  • definition of doneA shared checklist of quality conditions that every piece of work must meet before the team can call it done, such as tested, reviewed and documented.
  • requirementSomething a product or feature must do, or a condition it must meet, written down so that the team agrees on what to build.
  • edge caseAn unusual situation that happens only at the extreme limits of normal use, such as an empty list, a very long name or a lost connection during payment.

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