What happens to a user story when it is successfully deployed to UAT?

When a user story is successfully deployed to User Acceptance Testing (UAT), it follows a process where it can be back-promoted to connected lower environments. This back-promotion allows teams to ensure that the feature or functionality delivered in UAT has been tested and validated before making it live in production.

Promoting the user story back to lower environments is important because it allows for further testing and verification, ensuring that any issues can be resolved before the changes impact the production environment. It also helps integrate the latest changes into environments where other development activities are happening, creating a seamless workflow.

This approach fosters a collaborative development process where testing can occur continuously, and user feedback can be acted upon efficiently before final deployment. As a result, teams maintain higher quality and stability in the software being developed and ultimately deployed.