Spot on! Automated unit and integration tests are essential, but they rarely guarantee that business logic aligns with actual stakeholder expectations.
A big challenge during UAT is making specifications human-readable for non-technical users while keeping them executable for QA. Combining BDD workflows with a modern platform like Testomat.io makes this seamless — stakeholders review Given/When/Then scenarios, execute manual acceptance steps, and automatically sync results with Jira and CI/CD pipelines. Here is a great overview of modern tools designed for this: https://testomat.io/blog/uat-testing-tools/