Gmail Test Cases [ Login, Sign Up Page, Inbox & Compose ]

Gmail login screen Test Cases

In this post, we are going to discuss some of the test scenarios for the Gmail application. If you can only imagine about Gmail login screen, then you may be found thousands of test scenarios.

But here for the Gmail application, we are going to write some of the test scenarios for the Gmail application. But we are trying to refer to some of the most common functionalities only.

We are limiting the test scenarios to receive email and compose mail functionalities only. For login and Registration functionality’s test cases, users can check Test Scenarios for Login Page and Test Scenarios for Registration Page.

Before writing about any test scenario, try first to find out a few things like:

• What are the elements of that screen?
• Write a Test case on each object.
• Try to find out all possible positive & negative test scenarios.
• Also, try to cover all types of test cases like functional & non-functional test cases.

If you have a mock of the screen of the requirement, then it will be easy for you to find out all the elements easily. But always you are not getting this chance, at that time you have to think of yourself.

Gmail Sign In Login Screen Business Rules

Suppose You have got some business rules for the new Gmail login screen, and the rule is:

• A username text box should allow letter, number & period.
• Usernames should not be left as blank.
• Username should allow a maximum of 40 characters.
• Usernames should not start with or contain any particular character or symbols.
• Password field minimum length should five characters.
• The Password field can allow letters, numbers, and symbols.
• The password should not contain spaces and periods.
• The Password field maximum length is 30 characters.

Basic Gmail Functional Test Cases

• Is the login form works as expected?
• Is logout link functional?
• When the user click on the logout link, is that redirects the user back to the login screen?
• Does the forget password link works?
• Does it redirect to the valid password recovery page?
• Do forward, and backward buttons work properly while logged in? And also for logged out users?
• Does log in formwork similarly in every popular browser?
• How are errors handled and displayed?

Test scenarios for Gmail Sign Up Page

• Check as per the requirement document all the specified fields are present or not on the page.
• Check all the compulsory fields are marked with *.
• Check for better user experience checkbox, radio button & dropdown are used in the Gmail registration page.
• Check the position of reset, submit and cancel buttons location.
• Check after filled all mandatory fields. If the user hits the submit button, then that should be sent to the server.
• Check after fill all the fields. If the user clicks on the reset button, then all the field’s value should be cleared.
• Check Validation messages are displaying as per the input values on the client-side.
• Check without filling all the mandatory fields if the user clicks on the submit button then missed compulsory fields should be highlighted with red color and also validation message should be displayed.
• Check if the user leaves blank some of the optional fields and clicks the submit button, then the filled data should be forwarded to the server without displaying any error.
• Check the maximum allowed characters for the input fields.
• Check only valid dates, and emails can only allow for the Date and email field.
• Check for the input fields leading, and trailing space is trimmed automatically.
• Check if you submit the same request multiple times to the server, then you should get a validation error message.

Gmail Login or Sign In Page Test Scenarios

• Check is the login screen have all the elements like username field, password field, submit button & forget password links are present as per specification document or not.
• Check is the user can log in successfully after entering a valid username and password.
• Check if a user enters an invalid username or password, then the user should not be able to log in.
• Check validation messages are displays correctly based on the input values or not.
• Check all the filled values of the user name, and password field clears or not after a click on the reset button.
• Check the password field values are displaying in masked formats like asterisks or bullets.
• Check is there any limit for the unsuccessful attempts.
• Check is there any session time out a present for a login user.
• Check what time out duration for the login screen is.
• Check is the username, and password field values can copy or not.
• Check is the right-click functionality is disabled or not ibn login screen.

Test Case For Gmail Inbox Functionality

Now we are going to discuss the possible scenarios when you are receiving an email.

• The check is unread, and the recently received email is displayed as highlighted and bold in the Inbox section.
• Check is all the elements of received email is correctly displaying or not.
• Check when the user clicks on the new email, it redirects the user to the email content or not.
• Check is the email content is displaying in the proper format or not.
• Check the attached documents of the email are downloadable.
• Check the already read emails should not be the highlight.
• Check the number of unread email count should be displayed beside the inbox text box.
• Check if is the count is increased as per the number of new emails you are received.
• Check the count is increased when you mark en email as unread.
• Check after open or makes as read an email. The count should be decreased.
• Check the names are visible to all the users whose names are present in CC & To section.
• Check those names or emails are present in the BCC section should not display to others.
• Check you can receive email from other domains like yahoo, outlook & Hotmail.

Gmail Compose Email Functionality Test Case

• Check when the user clicks on the compose email button, a new popup should be displayed with the headers as a new message.
• Check the user able to enter email ID in the TO, CC, and BCC Section.
• Check is the auto-suggestion list of previous enter email id are displaying or not when filling the email.
• Check is multiple commas are allowed to separate multiple email ids of TO, CC, and BCC section.
• Check the user can enter the subject line in the subject text box.
• Check the user can type in the email body area.
• Check user can format the email body content by using the editor options.
• The check is the user can add files in the attachment section.
• The check is the user can add images in the email body area.
• Check all the users should be received the emails whose email ids are mentioned in the TO, CC & BCC section.
• Check when the user places mouse hovers on the email id, then contact information should be displayed. 
• After hitting the send button, the recent send mail should be display in the sent mail section.
• Check after hitting the send button the email should be delivered successfully to the NON-Gmail ID also.
• Check after composing the email if not sent, then that should be stored in the Draft section.
• Check what the maximum number of emails ID is can be added in the TO, CC & BCC section.
• Check what the maximum characters allowed in the email body area is.
• Check the maximum allowed characters in the subject text box.
• Check the maximum size of the attached file in the email.
• Check the maximum number of the attached files in an email.
• Check if special characters are entered by mistakenly in the TO, CC, or BCC section, and when you hit the send button, an error popup should be displayed.
• Check if the subject is not filled, and when you enter the send button, that time it should display. After accepting the popup, the user should be able to enter the subject of the email.

Final Words

We think we are trying to cover some of the primary and standard functionalities for the login screen, registration page, inbox, and compose the email functionalities.

But Still, we believe that you can find so many other missed scenario. If you want to add, then you can add that in the comment section, and we will update us on this Gmail Application Test Case accordingly.