What Is End-to-End Testing (E2E) and What Are the Benefits?
Have you had situations when, after filling in an online application form, you receive an error notification about the incorrect date format?
Perhaps.
In short, that type of error appears when an application supports a single date format. For example, month-day-year (e.g., May 10, 2021, in the USA) or day-month-year (e.g., 10 May 2021 in Ukraine).
To avoid such errors, predict user behavior, and prevent potential issues, end-to-end (E2E) testing is used.
What is end-to-end testing?
E2E testing is a software testing method that involves testing an application’s workflow from the beginning to the end.
It aims to replicate real user scenarios to validate the system for integration and data integrity.
End-to-end testing focuses on looking at software from the end-user perspective. A software tester or a QA engineer imagine themselves being ordinary users and act accordingly during the testing process. Such an approach helps to understand customer expectations better, modify software before its release to the market (e.g., add support of several date formats or include a calendar instead of a text field), and ensure software quality.
End-to-end testing process
To perform end-to-end testing, a QA engineer follows these key steps:
- Checks specifications to clearly understand how the application should work.
- Prepares test environment according to the requirements.
- Analyzes software and hardware requirements to ensure that the test environment is similar to the customer’s one.
- Documents how the system should respond.
- Arranges a list of testing methods necessary to check these responses. It includes describing the standards (language, tools, etc.) to follow in each test.
- Creates test cases to achieve expected goals.
- Runs tests, evaluates the results and provides reports.
Top 5 benefits of using E2E testing
- Better test coverage and increased application productivity.
- Ensured software stability and user-friendliness.
- Reduced efforts and costs associated with testing and overall development process.
- Faster time to market.
- Improved customer experience.
Still, considering the necessity of implementing end-to-end testing for your project? Contact our team to get a comprehensive consultation and choose a solution that best complies with your expectations.
Learn more about the E2E testing process itself and how the HireTester team implemented it in practice in one of our previous publications.
