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30 Days of E-Commerce Testing
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30 Days of E-Commerce Testing

30 Days of E-commerce Testing

Our famous 30 Days of Testing Challenge is back! 

The theme this time is E-Commerce Testing and this challenge has been kindly sponsored by Sauce Labs - check out their free Selenium Bootcamp, written by Selenium ninja Dave Haeffner.

These challenges are a great way to learn on your own, as a team effort or join in online with the wonderful Ministry of Testing community.

Below is a list of 30 challenges and a bonus challenge, one for each day of the month. Download the PDF in English or Portuguese below. Save it somewhere. Print it out. Stick it on your wall. Let’s do this!

What are the rules?

The goal is to tick off as many of the challenges as you can. You can do this in your own timeframe, or you can join us in our joint community effort throughout the month of May. We will be encouraging the community to share their progress on this challenge from the 1st of May 2018

You may have an image to share, a blog post, a video, status update, whatever it is!  Come and participate!

Here is how you can participate and share your progress:

30 Days of E-Commerce Testing

30 Days of Ecommerce Testing, the text version

  1. Look up some definitions for ‘ecommerce’, from these create and share your own definition.
  2. Read and share an interesting blog about ecommerce testing.
  3. Join the #ecommerce channel on https://testers.chat and introduce yourself!
  4. Find and share a useful video on youtube about ecommerce testing.
  5. Identify different types of ecommerce business classifications/models (e.g. Business to Business).
  6. If you were testing a “my cart” webpage, what three test cases would you perform first? Share them! 
  7. Name five examples of an ecommerce platform? (e.g. Shopify) 
  8. On an ecommerce platform, what monitoring and analytics would implement and why? 
  9. Share your three favourite tools for testing ecommerce products on The Club. 
  10. An ecommerce system has been launched, you have to do a smoke test. Share what you would test. 
  11. Test a “my cart” page from different user persona’s perspectives, share your personas! 
  12. Create a mindmap of what ecommerce testing means to you and share it! 
  13. Share three testing ideas for an ecommerce website. 
  14. Check out #ecommerce on Twitter and see if you can generate some test ideas from this feed. 
  15. Name five different online payment methods. 
  16. Identify which occasions in the year are busiest for ecommerce websites. How would you prepare for them? 
  17. Identify what the most important parts of an ecommerce website are. 
  18. What are cookies and how are they commonly used on an ecommerce website? 
  19. Learn about performance testing strategies for an ecommerce platform. 
  20. Shopping Cart Abandonment: What are some common ways of handling this issue?
  21. Identify alternative ways that we can currently buy products without using a computer. 
  22. What are methods of securing ecommerce data? Discuss and share! 
  23. What are examples of businesses which are marketplace ecommerce platforms? 
  24. Who’s had a high profile public ecommerce failure that you’ve read about in the news? Share it on The Club. 
  25. What security concerns do you associate with ecommerce and how would you test them? 
  26. Learn about how users are tracked on ecommerce websites/apps. Blog your findings! 
  27. How can we use the analytics data from ecommerce sites to help us test? 
  28. Identify potential ethical issues with the use of ecommerce data. What are some public examples? 
  29. Research and share how Search Engine Optimisation(SEO) and ecommerce work together.
  30. Find 4 different types of credit cards and learn what makes them different - e.g number length. 
  31. Bonus: Research job specs for ecommerce testers, identify 3 skills gaps from the criteria that you’d like to develop and create yourself some learning goals to achieve them
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Melissa Eaden has worked for more than a decade with tech companies such as Security Benefit, HomeAway, ThoughtWorks, and now Unity Technologies. Melissa’s previous career in mass media continues to lend itself to her current career endeavors. She can be found on Twitter @melthetechie
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