Test Case For Account Deactivation

As account deactivation becomes more and more common, it is important to test the functionality of your process for multiple scenarios. This article provides some ideas for how to test a number of cases that might occur when you are deactivating an account.

What is an account deactivation test case?

It’s a set of test cases that are created to validate the performance of an account deactivation process. Account deactivation processes are responsible for informing an end-user that their account is inactive and therefore, the right to use the application has been suspended. This can be done by sending emails, SMS messages, or using various other channels.

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Account deactivation is a challenging task for any company. As the number of users increases, the process of account deletion becomes more complex and time-consuming.

There are a number of reasons why you might want to deactivate an account on your website. For example, you may be going through a transition period and wish to test different strategies before you make any changes that could have a negative impact on conversions. Or maybe your customers don’t respond well to certain messages and you want to see if changing the messaging can result in a better conversion rate.

Deactivation is the process of stopping an account on the account management system. A test case should be created to check if deactivation is properly done or not. The following is a list of account deactivation test cases that will help you create and run your own automated test cases for deactivation.

QA Team Need to Figure out

There are a few things to consider before letting the users deactivate their user account. Here are some questions that your quality assurance team should pay attention to.

• Why are users interested in removing their profiles?
• Do users want to remove their data?
• Does the system allow them to remove their profile and data?
• What information are we collecting from the users who are removing their profile?
• Do we give them a choice to reactivate their profile?
• Do the system retains data of user if they reactivate?

Once you answer these questions, you get the idea of why the users want to remove their data and deactivate their accounts. Based on that information, we get the idea to implement the account deactivation feature effectively.

Each web app these days offers a system for the removal of data. Also, such a feature has a simple remove account feature. However, you may find that a social network like Facebook doesn’t quickly remove your data.

So in such a case, you should focus more on the features that allow users to retain privacy while removing their accounts. Take a look at the Facebook deactivation dialog box.

Test Case For Account Deactivation

• Does the system offer any form of email confirmations?
• Does the user lose data after the removal of the account?
• Does the user get back the data after reactivation?
• Is the feature irreversible or permanent?
• Does the account deactivation the same as uninstalling or removing the app? (In case of an android app)
• Do other people get to access the profile after removal? (In case of social network)
• Does the deactivation purge past data?
• Is it possible to deactivate someone’s account by security leak?
• Does the administrator or moderator have the privilege to deactivate others’ accounts?
• Does the deactivation feature require two-step authentication?
• Does the deactivation feature require password verification for action?
• Does the deactivation feature ask for user intent behind the action? (As in user is accidentally doing it or purposefully)
• Is it possible to deactivate accidentally?
• Is it possible to recover the account if deleted accidentally?
• Does the system offer confirmation after deactivation?
• Does the system offer some confirmation before activation?
• Does the system allow registering the user account with the same name and email?
• Does it require calling customer support to reactivate?
• Does the system offer information about what happens after deactivation?
• Does the support has an FAQ on account deactivation?
• Does the support handles account deactivation issues?
• Does the data retention possible if security leak leads to account hacking?
• Does the user get to remove the personal information permanently?
• Does the account deactivation process checks for security leaks?
• Does the account deactivation remove the username from the system?

Conclusion

Above, we have discussed some of the underlying standard functionality of deactivating applications. If you have to compare this scenario with other forms, then there you may find a few more test scenarios.

For example, if a user deactivates his profile on Facebook, that means that users’ activity is restricted, and others can’t access the profile. In such a case, Facebook has different user account deletion, which removes data from the account.

So for some web app accounts, deletion and deactivation are not the same features. I hope you find these test cases useful. If you have any other test cases, test case examples, sample test cases template, and suggestions in mind, then feel free to suggest in the comments.

FAQ’s on Account Deactivation