acceptancecriteria
nounUK /əkˈsɛptəns kraɪˈtɪəriə/
US /əkˈsɛptəns kraɪˈtɪriə/
The rules that tell you when something is good enough to be accepted.
The team wrote the acceptance criteria before they started building the new app.
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2. The specific conditions a product must meet to be approved by a customer or user.
The customer listed the acceptance criteria in the contract so everyone knew what counted as finished.
3. In software development, the testable statements that confirm a feature works as intended.
Each user story includes acceptance criteria that the developers turn into automated tests.
4. The standards used to decide whether a piece of work passes review.
The reviewer checked the report against the acceptance criteria before signing off.