What To Test In An Ecommerce Website
If you have an e-Commerce site you are in crosshairs of hackers. And you need e-commerce testing why? Because you are with the golden eggs they desire maximum. You handle client credit card and his/her personal information that they need to steal and exploit.
They normally do it by either blocking the messaging between your client's browser and your website or hacking into your network to infect your web pages with malware. You can be held responsible for what happens to your client's data, but the negative effect on your image with your customers can be worse than the direct financial loss. Infected pages not only risk the client but take longer to load. 67% of users abandon a site if a page load exceeds 4 seconds and 9 of 10 will not return to an e-Commerce site after a bad experience.
Homepage: Homepage of an e-commerce website includes a rich source of data and links directed to different pages. Therefore, it is necessary to test the functionality and interoperability of the homepage and check all the visual elements and details on the page.
User Registration & Accounts: E-commerce testing also need one to test the client certification process which helps confirm whether each client has unique id and password that is encrypted in the system. It must also involve checking of client a/c and related data like transaction shipping address, history, stored information of credit/debit cards to make sure customers are never put into trouble while buying from your website.
Product Details Pages: Product description page is a core of an e-commerce website, which can make or break your clients. Hence, it is essential to test product detail pages, and how it works and appear such as - product description, product title and code, enlarge image functions, product images, related products display, 360-degree view of the product, and add to shopping cart functions and so on.
Checkout & Payment Gateways: Testing of an e-commerce website would not be completed if a tester overlooks the functionality and process of checkout and payment gateways. Testers also require devoting enough time to test the checkout and payment procedure with various payment options such as cash, credit card, netbanking, debit card etc. as well as payment gateways. On the other hand, it is also important to test and verify the procedure of refund and email sent to the buyers while performing testing of an ecommerce website.
Main Test Types Performed Under E-commerce: • • • • •
Security testing. Performance control. Functional testing. Mobile application check. Usability testing.
Meeting Security Requirements The basic security necessities for running a business online are comparatively straightforward. All business systems must comply with any security-related demands imposed by interested parties such as Trader service providers. Web hosting services might have their own requirements but various limits their involvement in maintaining application patches of the operating system and installed applications. A security expert can assist by designing and configuring systems to make the sure agreement with industry best practices. The design and management of all of these elements are to help safeguard the business from attack as well as provide business partners and interested people a demonstration of the commitment to ensuring system security. Re-engineering and data migration are two major procedures in the IT industries, especially the business field that have decided to automate their manual procedure. Automating manual procedures can be done either by using off-the-shelf software solutions that match or can be customized to suit the current systems or custom develop own software to meet the demands.