How to Test an E-commerce Website?

Now days the online business become more popular, this innovative way of business saves lot of time and convenient for people also. Most of the people prefer to shop online as it is more convenient way to access the products worldwide and it is time saving and efficient way.

The good E-commerce site is key to profit and success for your business. So the website should have tempting and user friendly layout, with smooth, error free functionality that user will stay there and get engaged. A good site leads to a god business. When it comes a development process of e-commerce site whether php web development, WooCommerce development services or any other, it need to be tested after development.

Testing E-commerce Websites requires good knowledge of web testing techniques and the e-commerce domain. The E-commerce site has common theme and structure like:

·         Homepage

·         Search Results Page

·         Product Details Page

·         Order Form Page

·         Order Confirmation Page

·         Login Form Page and Accounts Pages

There are many other pages too, but this s a main site map. These “front-end” pages are likely to

communicate with “back-end” web services, such as Product Search Service, Booking Engine,

Payment Services, Content Service, Accounts Services, etc. Therefore, it is important when testing

e-commerce websites that we test each service one by one as well as integrated as a whole system.

Most important is to test the key functions of an E-commerce site like:

Testing Shopping Cart

Shopping carts are one of the key features of an e-commerce website and thus form the center

piece of testing e-commerce websites. It allows for customers to select and store multiple items in

the cart and purchase them all at once.

Testing Seach Forms, Pagination and Sorting

The search form is usually present on multiple pages to allow users to search for products

wherever they are on the site. Therefore, it is important that the search feature is tested from

applicable pages.

Testing Sign Up and sign In Process

Some e-commerce websites allows to purchase an item as a guest, i.e. without the need to create an

account, and there is an optional step to create an account when an order is placed.Once a an

account is created , a user can login at any stage during purchase process.

Testing Payment Process

Payment Process is important part to test E-commerce site. This is what allows user to purchase a

product without calling and placing an order. Different payment types should be tested.

The most important thing while testing an E-commerce  site is to make sure that every feature is

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