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Most teams are getting the hang of User Stories that have sub tasks. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about acceptance criteria.
It is so important because real user stories tell a team when the task is done.

Also Product Owners should not get heartburn because ‘obvious’ functionality was not included. All requirements should be specified in the Acceptance Criteria.
For example, Product Owners should not assume things like:

• they will get a message that says ‘no records found’ or
• the grid will support features such as pagination or sorting

They must be specified in the Acceptance Criteria if required.

There are 2 parts to getting this right. The Acceptance Criteria, then the Acceptance Tests:

• Acceptance Criteria (from the Product Owner) define the exact requirements that must be met for the story to be completed. They answer the question, “How will I know when I’m done with the story?”

Positive Test -When I enter ‘Adam’ in the Search box and click ‘Search’ I will see all entries starting with Adam in the Grid
Negative Test - When I enter ‘zzz’ in the Search box and click ‘Search’ I will see *no* entries in the Grid

Figure: OK Example of Acceptance Criteria 
Positive Test -When I enter ‘Adam’ in the Search box and click ‘Search’ I will see all entries starting with Adam in the Grid
Negative Test - When I enter ‘zzz’ in the Search box and click ‘Search’ I will see *no* entries in the Grid
Gold Plating - If no results are retuned show a message box ‘No results found’
Gold Plating – Validation: If no search text is entered, the ‘Search’ button should be disabled
Gold Plating – Right clicking on a column header should provide ‘Sort’ functionality
Gold Plating – if a large set of results is returned, display pagination with page numbers and ‘Prev’, ‘Next’ links
 Figure: Good Example of Acceptance Criteria – Including Gold Plating

• Acceptance Tests (built by the developers) verify that the Acceptance Criteria are met.
The goal is for teams to move beyond manual testing and implement automated testing
eg. CodedUI tests, Telerik Tests etc
 Test cases answer the question, “How do I test and what are the test steps?”