When you’re commissioning a new Umbraco site, it can be useful to start planning for the task of testing what has been delivered by your developers.  A planned and thoughtful approach to User Acceptance Testing can reduce the time taken and ensure better coverage of the system as well as one that is ultimately better at the end. During the early product planning stages, it’s worth discussing acceptance testing to understand the agency’s standard approach. Will they develop the system in an iterative way and expect you to contribute to acceptance testing during the project, or will they instead…

Recently one of our existing customers in the Education sector asked us to investigate options to to improve the integration of their customer systems.  Currently we manage the web applications that Tutors and Learners use to access learning resources, which we developed using Umbraco. Tutors also have access to an online customer portal developed by a different agency which enables them to register courses and learners.  While this is also a .NET based system it currently has little integration with the Umbraco site.  For example, users have two separate log-ins and passwords, and when logged into one application they…