E-Commerce Website Useful Test

Cases

This post is related to the test cases which are required to test an e-commerce
website. Testing an E-commerce website is itself a challenge as it includes many
flows. To test E-Commerce website one must have the knowledge of testing
techniques and also some of the knowledge about what basically E-commerce is.

Below are some of the test cases which will help you to do a better testing of E-
Commerce Websites.

General Test Cases

Login Page Test Cases

Registration Page Test Cases

Address Book Test Cases

Search Test Cases

Wish list Page Test Cases

Product Details Page Test Cases

Cart Test Cases

Product Buy Flow Test Cases

Payment Page Test Cases

Seller – Product creation Test Cases

Post Purchase Test Cases

1. General Test Cases:-

1. Check that user is able to navigate through all the products across
different categories.
2. Check that all the links are redirecting to correct product/category
pages and none of the links are broken.
3. Check that the company logo is clearly visible.
4. Check that all the text – product, category name, price and product
description are clearly visible.
5. Check that all the images are clearly visible.
6. Check that category pages have a relevant product listed specifically
for the category.
7. Check that correct count of total products is listed on the category
pages.

2. Login Page Test Cases:-

1. Check that there are proper validations on Login Page.

2. Check for error message if email, password or any required field is
left blank.
3. Check the validations on Email and password.
4. When you log in check that you stay logged in as you browse
products. Also, you need to test the behavior when the user doesn’t
interact with the site for some time. Will the session expire after a
period of time? Make sure the user has actually been logged out
after the session times out.
5. when you are logged in, log out and make sure you are logged out
and that you cannot access any of the accounts pages.

3. Registration Page Test Cases:-

1. Check that all the required fields are present on the registration
page.
2. Check that the required/mandatory fields are marked with * against
the field.
3. Check that for better user interface dropdowns, radio buttons and
checkboxes etc fields are displayed wherever possible instead of just
text boxes.
4. Check the page has both submit and cancel/reset buttons at the end.
5. Check that on clicking submit button after entering all the required
fields, the data is submitted to the server.
6. Check that clicking cancel/reset button after entering all the required
fields, cancels the submit request and resets all the fields.
 7. Check that whenever possible validation should take place on the
client side.
8. Check that not filling the mandatory fields and clicking submit button
will lead to the validation error.
9. Check that not filling the optional fields and clicking submit button
will still send data to the server without any validation error.
10. Check the upper limit of the text boxes.
11. Check validation on the date and email fields (only valid dates
and valid email Ids should be allowed.
12. Check validation on numeric fields by entering alphabets and
special characters.
13. Check that leading and trailing spaces are trimmed.
14. Check that entering blank spaces on mandatory fields lead to
validation error.

4. Address Book Test Cases:-

1. Check validations on Address Book Page.

2. Verify Address entered by customer.
3. Check Add New Address functionality.
4. Check Change Address functionality.
5. Check the availability of product on the address entered by customer.

5. Search Test Cases:-

1. Check that the products displayed are related to what was searched
for.
2. Check that the products should display an image, name, price and
maybe customer ratings and number of reviews.
3. Check the more relevant product for the search term are displayed
on the top for a particular search term.
4. Check that all items in next page is different to the previous page,
i.e. no duplicates.
5. Check that when both sort and filter have been applied, they remain
as we paginate or more products are loaded
6. Check that count of products is correctly displayed on the search
result page for a particular search term.
7. Check that filtering functionality correctly filters product based on the
filter applied.
8. Check that filtering works correctly on category pages.
9. Check that filtering works correctly on the search result page.
10. Check that correct count of total products is displayed after a
filter is applied.
 11. Check that all the sort options work correctly – correctly sort
the products based on the sort option chosen.
12. Check that sorting works correctly on the category pages.
13. Check that sorting works correctly on the search result page.
14. Check that sorting works correctly on the pages containing
filtered result, after applying filters.
15. Check that product count remains intact irrespective of sorting
option applied.

6. Wish list Page Test Cases:-

1. Verify that added product is present on the wishlist page.

2. Check that Update of the wishlist is working correctly.
3. Check the Share wishlist functionality.
4. Check that user is able to Add products to Cart from wishlist page.

7. Product Details Page Test Cases:-

1. Verify Actual product details with expected product details.

2. Verify Add to cart should work properly.
3. Check that user is able to add products in the wish list.
4. Check that complete description of Product including images is
shown properly.
5. Check that option to check the availability of product is present.
6. Check that user can rate, review the product.

8. Cart Test Cases:-

1. Check that user is able to add products to cart.

2. Check that the cart is updated with the correct name, image, and
price of the product.
3. Check that user is able to add same product multiple times.
4. Check that the price increase accordingly when a product is added
multiple times.
5. Check that user can add multiple products of different types.
6. Check that For each item added, a corresponding name, image, and
price and the total price of all items is shown.
7. Check that when a product is removed from the cart the cart gets
updated and shows the existing items in the cart, total price
according to the products left in the cart.
8. Check that when all the products are removed from cart then cart
balance becomes zero, no items should be displayed in the cart.
 9. Check that customer should be able to see more information about
the product when clicked on the product either as a popup or
redirect to the product page.
10. When a user adds products to cart and then closes the tab
then ideally, the cart should still hold your items or
particularly depends on the requirements on how the cart should
behave.
11. Check that the price of the cart is discounted when we apply a
coupon and not discounted when we apply an invalid or expired
coupon.

9. Product Buy Flow Test Cases:-

1. Check that on the product page, a user can select the desired
attribute of the product e.g. size, color etc.
2. Check that user can add to cart one or more products.
3. Check that user can add products to the wish list.
4. Check that user can buy products added to cart after signing in to
the application (or as per the functionality of the website).
5. Check that user can successfully buy more than one products that
were added to his/her cart.
6. Check that the limit to the number of products a user can by is
working correctly by displaying an error message and preventing the
user from buying more than the limit.
7. Check the availability of products at desired locations.
8. Check that Cash on Delivery option of payment is working fine.
9. Verify that the different pre paid methods of payments are working
fine.
10. Check that product return functionality works fine.
11. Check that Cancel Order option is present.

10. Payment Page Test Cases:-

1. Check that  After fill shipping address and payment, the product is
purchased successfully.
2. Check that Different payment types should be present, e.g. Credit
Card, PayPal, Bank Transfers, Installments, etc.
3. Check that security of client’s card details when entered for payment.

11. Seller – Product creation Test Cases:-

1. Check that authenticated sellers get access to product creation panel

specific to the authorized categories.
 2. Check that product creation is working fine for single product
creation.
3. Check that product creation is working fine for multiple product
creations.
4. Check that maximum product creation limit for the seller is working
fine, limiting seller to create more than the desired number of
products.
5. Check validation for checking mandatory fields.
6. Check that duplicate product creation is restricted.
7. Check that seller can update information and price of existing
products.
8. Check that product created by seller get visible on the website after
the certain period of time.
9. Check that updation made by seller get visible on the website after
the certain period of time.

12. Post Purchase Test Cases:-

1. Check that customer is able to Cancel the order or change the

quantity of the order.
2. Check that customer is able to Review recent order and history of
purchased items.
3. Check that customer is able to Change information, such as billing
address, shipping address, change password, change profile
information such as name, email address and even deleting an
account.