Sentence: Verify receipt of email.

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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As an tester, I have to receive an email alert if my bank changes any policy (this is part of software testing). So can I write like the below:

  1. Test step: “Verify receipt of email”.

  2. Expected result: Neither email nor alert message received.

Thanks,

2

That sounds reasonable to me.

Incidentally, compare this version with yours:

As a tester, I have to receive an email alert if my bank changes any policy (this is part of software testing). So can I write as below:

3

Thanks for your help Beeesnees!

Another question (I don’t want to create a separate thread (burden on the servers), so posting)

Should I write:

As an user, I have to review it

Or

As a user, I have to review it

Thanks,

4

As a user…
The use of ‘an’ is dependent on the initial vowel sound, not simply the initial vowel letter.
As an example:
a user but an umbrella - the phoneme sound of the ‘u’ is different in those two words.

5

So is the use of ‘a’ which is dependent on the initial consonantal sound, regardless of whether the word begins with a consonant or a vowel letter as in ‘a hotel’, ‘a Utopian’, ‘a European’, ‘a year’ etc

We also say ‘an MA’, ‘an SP’, ‘an LC’ etc for we pronounce them as they are with an initial vowel sound.

Further, it will be better if

is recast as: As a tester, I need to ensure that the system generates an automatic email alert if/when/as the bank changes any of its policies.
(I think this is what Suresh means as regards the requirement of the bank, his client)

6

Thanks Beeesnees for the clarification!

You are correct Anglophile about the context - Thanks!

7

Another thing I have observed is that, most of the people (English as native language) really do not bother about grammer! One person writes “e-mail”, another writes “email”… Just an example, there are many.

8

Yes, Sureshvemuri, that is true, especially of the hyphen. You may see:
e-mail, Email, E-mail, e-Mail, email, eMail
Similarly you will often see ‘internet’ rather than ‘Internet’ and ‘Ok’ rather than ‘OK’ or ‘okay’.
In this way the language is constantly evolving.