The Top 10 Test Cases
At a previous company we came with a concept of the “Top 10” test cases. You may refer to this as Smoke Tests or End-to-End tests. As I thought about testing websites and other apps for quality, it came back to how many times websites can’t even pass the “Top 10” tests. If you can’t pass the Top 10 tests, then your app or website … well, it needs some work. But what are the Top 10? It does depend on the website or app. I will come up with my Top 10. Remember these aren’t “tricky” or “gotcha” tests. These are common sense, common use case tests that go broad not deep on your app to do a quick “check” on quality.
The Test Cases
Copyright test
Menu Test
Search Test
Login Test
Money Test
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Mobile Test
Performance Test
Help/Contact Us
Home Page Test
Console Log Test
AI Challenge:
The AI Challenge is for all the automation tool companies out there. Does your product test for these Top 10 Tests by default without any human intervention? Why not? Just get these tests written before you even contact a potential client for a demo. Then use these tests in your demo. Done! Better demo than you have ever given before.
Next Up: Running these Top 10 Test Cases against 10 Websites.
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1yWe use the Top 10 concept for our smoke tests and brainstormed the Top 10 with the Dev team. I enjoy the dev/QA collaboration where I work.
QA Team Lead
1yKevin, great list! I'm going to adopt some of these myself. One addition that I'd been planning for my team is to run a quick smoke test of the health checks of our microservices. A fast way to know if the environment is actually ready for further testing.