An Approach For Integration Testing In Online Retail Applications

TL;DR

This paper discusses an approach for integration testing in online retail applications, emphasizing the importance of testing stages and methodologies to ensure correct interaction among various integrated systems.

Contribution

It proposes a specific integration testing approach tailored for online retail applications, including guidance on testing stages within the Software Testing Life Cycle.

Findings

Defined optimal stage for initiating integration testing

Outlined a systematic approach for testing online retail systems

Illustrated the approach with a practical example

Abstract

Retail applications has majorly fraud prevention, procurement, shipping and tax related, pricing, real time bank authentication applications integrated to make the application run successfully. Integration testing here plays an important role as it requires that all applications interact with each other and also interact correctly so that Retailer is at benefit. Different testing techniques and types are used to test the application. Different testing teams will perform integration testing but what is the correct approach and how should you proceed is the major concern of many. Here we propose at what stage of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), integration testing should be initiated. Also what should be the approach of performing the testing? An example on Online Retail Application is used to understand the approach.