Black Box Testing is essential in every software application. It is one of the methods of software testing where the internal structure or code is not known to the software tester performing Black Box Testing. The tester will just need to be aware of the application’s requirements in order to determine whether the expected and actual results of the application match.
Black box testing in the WooCommerce application is similarly performed in the same way as it is in all other software applications.
This type of testing is primarily focused on the system’s input, output and the behaviour of the software.
Here are some steps to perform Black Box Testing in the WooCommerce:
1. Understand The Requirements
Before you start the testing of any application it is required to understand the requirements of that application. In a similar way before you start testing any application of WooCommerce store it is essential to have a clear understanding of all types of functional and non-functional requirements of the WooCommerce store.
The functional requirements will include How the store should behave and all the steps involved in purchasing any order.
2. Identify Test Scenarios
Identifying all the test scenarios based on the requirements is a crucial task. For just one feature, there can be multiple test scenarios. These scenarios should cover various business aspects, including all the edge cases of your WooCommerce store.
Product Catalogue, Product Selection, Shopping Cart, Checkout Process, Payment Gateways, Shipping Options and User Account Management are such key features.
3. Define the Test Case for Black Box Testing
For each test scenario, define some specific test cases. Test cases will include Input data, Expected outcomes, and the steps to reproduce the scenario.
4. Test Data
For executing the test cases you should create or gather the test data. The test data can be anything like a real world entity.
Such as Product Image, Product Size, Product Quantity, Product Price, Customer information purchasing the product etc.
5. Execute Test Cases
Execute the test cases on the application of the WooCommerce Store. This will simulate real-time users’ interactions with the application without any prior knowledge of the application’s internal workings.
6. Record the Test Results
Record the test result of each test case, whether it performed as expected, which means the test case passed, failed, showed any error, or gave any deviated result from the expected one.
7. Retesting and Regression Testing
After executing the test cases, once the reported issues are resolved by the developer, the tester will first perform Retesting, which involves testing only the bugs fixed by the developer and further Regression testing to ensure any other dependent features of the application should not be impacted and will not cause new bugs after the bug fixing.
8. Performance Testing
The bugs are fixed and the functionalities are working fine. Now the next step is to check the performance of the application and how it performs under different scenarios by simulating a high user load on the application to see whether it performs as smoothly as on a slow traffic load or not.
Jmeter, LoadRunner, and NeoLoad are some of the performance testing tools used to test the performance of the WooCommerce applications.
9. Security Testing
Now the last and foremost aspect of testing any WooCommerce application is Security Testing when the application involves financial transactions and overall website integrity to ensure whether the application is safe from vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), etc.
Penetration Testing is one of the security testing methods used.
Conclusion
Black box testing in WooCommerce is crucial to ensure that your online store works as expected and meets the needs and security of the transactions of your customers.
It is an ongoing process to identify and address any issues for your WooCommerce store’s maintenance and growth.
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