GUI Testing Checklist
GUI Testing Checklist
Purpose of this GUI Testing Checklist is to help you understand how your application can be
tested according to the known and understood standards for GUI. This checklist can give some guidance
to the development and QE, both the teams. Development team can make sure that during the
development they follow guidelines related to the compliance, aesthetics, navigation etc. but onus of
testing GUI is on the QE team and as a tester it is your responsibility to validate your product against
GUI standards followed by your organization.
This GUI test checklist can ensure that all the GUI components are thoroughly tested. In the
first part of this checklist, we will cover Windows compliance standard and some test ideas for field
specific tests.
These compliance standards are followed by almost all the windows based application. Any
variance from these standards can result into inconvenience to the user. This compliance must be
followed for every application. These compliances can be categorized according to following criteria
v. Check boxes
a. User should be able to select any combination of checkboxes
b. Clicking mouse on the box should set/unset the checkbox.
c. Spacebar should also do the same