Types of Testing for E-commerce System
Common type of testing included into e commerce system are:-
Sr.# | Type of Testing | Testing Process |
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1 | Browser compatibility |
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2 | Page display |
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3 | Session Management |
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4 | Usability |
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5 | Content Analysis |
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6 | Availability |
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7 | Back-up and Recovery |
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8 | Transactions |
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9 | Shopping order processing and purchasing |
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10 | Internationalization |
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11 | Operational business procedures |
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12 | System Integration |
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13 | Performance |
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14 | Login and Security |
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Performance testing- a top priority in E-commerce
Just delay about 250 milliseconds of a page load time, is what keeps your customer going to your competitor. Retail giant Walmart overhaul their site speed and noticed an increase of 2% in visitor’s conversion rate and revenue by 1%.
Performance of your site depends on this factors
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Throughput
- Request per second
- Transactions per minute
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Executions per click
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Response Time
- Duration of a task
- Seconds per click
- Page Load
- DNS Lookup
- Length of time between click and seeing page
Useful Tools for Mapping E-commerce Site
- Concept Feedback: Post your website and get feedback from experts
- ClickHeat: It shows the most clicked and unclicked zones of sites by visitors
- FiveSecondTest: This tool ensures that your message is communicated as effectively as possible, in just five seconds it tells what a person recalls about your website design
- Feedback Army: For your e commerce site it start a usability test by submitting questions about your site and receiving 10 responses from reviewers
- Feng-GUI: It simulates the human vision during first five seconds and predicts what a real human would most likely look at
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Optimizely: It enables you to test track, clicks, conversions or anything else that matters to e-commerce business
Challenges of E-commerce Testing
- Compliance with security guidelines to safeguard customer data and identity
- Compliance with accessibility standards to support multi-lingual markets and business regions
- End to end testing and test management for large e-commerce transformation programs
- Scalability and reliability of applications
- Compliance with accessibility standards to support multi-lingual markets and business regions