Checklist - Installation Module Test Scenarios/Testcases

This is my first blog posting on testing. I’m started my career as mobile application tester and later on my testing career moved to testing applications and device drivers. I thought to start testing blog to post and share all of my work experiences on testing. Here in this post I would like to share generic level of testcases for testing Installation module of Application and not the installation wizard means test scenarios of application installation module.

TC_ID	Test Scenarios	Headline	Testcase Description	Expected Result
INS_001	Installation setup	Check on Installation Setup - extension file and icon respresentation	1. Ensure Installer setup file is in .exe or .bat or .inf or .msi file extension type. 2. Ensure Installer setup file represented in standard icon and/or company standard icon	Installer setup should be in standard file extension and icon.
INS_002	Installation setup	Check on Installation Setup - Tooltip on mouse over	1. Move the mouse over the installation setup file and/or select the setup file. 2. Check if tool tip box is showing Application name, Company name, Version, File size and Date created	Tool tip should display correct and accurate information about the application informations like version, company name, date created or modified date and file size.
INS_003	Installation setup	Check on installation wizard dialogbox steps	1. Double click on the installer 2. Check the installation wizard dialogbox is displaying the correct information about the application information like name, version number.	Installer wizard should display correct application information everywhere and should not differ from the tool tip and actual application information.
INS_004	Installation setup	Check on installation wizard navigation and input fields values	1. Double click on the installer 2. Ensure user is able to click on Next and then back button to view the previous screen and all for modification and input fields values are remains same 3. Ensure user is able to alter the filled values and proceeding the installation	Installation wizard should allow the user for navigation and filled input values should remains the same.
INS_005	Installation setup	Check on multiple instance of installation wizard	1. Double click on the installer and ensure installer wizard is getting displayed to the user 2. Before completion of the installation again click on the installer 3. Check if installer wizard remains the same of the instance1 and also set focus on it 4. Ensure only one application progress running under task manager	Installation wizard should not allow multiple instance of installation on the same time
INS_006	Installation setup	Check the termination of installation wizard	1. Double click on the installer 2. Before completion of the installation, try to exit/terminate the installation 3. Ensure user is able to terminate the installation wizard after the conformation popup message to the user. Note: Cancellation of installation - if user press 'Esc', exit, Abort, cancel	Installation wizard should display the termination conformation popup message to the user and should terminate the wizard.
INS_007	Installation setup	Check the installation under not recommended platforms	1. Try to install the application under non-recommended system configurations (Note: Installing the application under windowXP, eventhough application only support windows7 platform) 2. Check if installer is throwing appropriate error message to the user.	Installation setup should fail to install the application and should throw appropriate error message to the user.
INS_008	Installation setup	Installation under recommended system configuration	1. Install application under recommended system configuration and according to user manual installation guidelines. 2. Check if user is able to install the application without any error or warnings messages. Note: Default Path - C:\Program Files\App_name\	Application should install successfully without any warnings and/or errors.
INS_009	Installation setup	Installation of supported packages/patches, if any	1. Install application under recommended system configuration and according to user manual installation guidelines. 2. Check if installer setup is installing the supported packages and/or patches which are mandatory for the application, if any	Installer setup should install the supported packages/patches which are mandatory for the application.
INS_010	Installation setup	Installing the setup after termination of the installation	1. Double click on the installer and ensure installer wizard is getting displayed to the user 2. Before completion of the installation, terminate the installation 3. Again double click on the installer and check user is able to install the application successfully Note: In some cases, second time installation failed due to effect of first installation termination.	Installer setup should install the application.
INS_011	Installation setup	Re-installation of the application	1. Double click on the installer and install the application 2. After the successful installation, again double click on the installer to re-install the application 3. check the behavior of the application.	Installer setup should display conformation popup message of overwrite and proceed with user inputs.
INS_012	Installation setup	Try to install the application, when application is in running state	1. Double click on the installer and install the application 2. After the successful installation, launch the application 3. Try to install the application again and check the behavior of the application.	Application should display appropriate error message to the user saying "Please close the application before proceeding Re-installation".
INS_013	Installation setup	Try to uninstall the application, when application is in running state	1. Double click on the installer and install the application 2. After the successful installation, launch the application 3. Try to uninstall the application and check the behavior of the application.	Application should display appropriate error message to the user saying "Please close the application before proceeding uninstallation".
INS_014	Userdefined installation path	Try to set user defined path for the installation	1. Double click on the installer 2. On the installation wizard, try to alter/set user defined path instead of default path 3. Check if installer is allowing the user to setting the path 4. Ensure application is installed on the user defined installation path	Installer should allow user to set the installation path and should install the application on defined path as well
INS_015	User manual, Help file	Check on user manual and help files	1. Install the application 2. Ensure user manual guide and help files as part of installation.	Installer should install user manual in pdf file format and helper/supported files.
INS_016	Sample scripts	Check on sample scripts	1. Install the application 2. Ensure application is providing sample scripts for the user Note: Sample script availability is depends upon the project/application requirements.	Application should provide sample scripts in the installer package.
INS_017	Uninstallation	To check the Uninstallation functionality	1. After successful installation of the application, click on uninstall option to uninstall application 2. Check the Uninstaller removed the application and it's dependency files. Note: Uninstall should happen irrespective of the installation path	Applicaiton should be uninstalled successfully and during uninstallation process, all necessary dependency files should be completely removed from the PC along with short cut icons Note: Log file should be retained.
INS_018	Re-installation	To check Re-installation of application after uninstallation	1. Install the application 2. Ensure application is working normally 3. Uninstall the application and restart the system. 4. Install the application once again 5. Check if application is working fine after re-installation.	Application should work fine normally
INS_019	Booting	To verify OS booting after successful installation	1. Install the application 2. Restart the pc. 3. Check if PC is restarted successfully without any booting failures and ensure installed drivers on place.	PC should restart successfully after installation and application should work as expected.
INS_020	Registry	To check the application version in the registry after installation	1. Install the application 2. Go to windows registry settings	Application name,version and installation path should be seen correctly in the windows registry
INS_021	Registry	To check the application version in the registry after uninstallation	1. Install the application 2. Ensure application is registered under Registry 3. Uninstall the application 4. Check if registry of the application is removed from the windows registry settings.	Registry of the application should be removed from the windows registry settings.
INS_022	Installation on Fresh PC/Non MS-Visual studio	To verify the installer setup under non-availability of MS visual studio	1. Precondition: MS Visual Studio tool should not be installed on the test PC. 2. Double click on the installer setup and try to install the application. 3. Check if user is able to install the application successfully or not. Note: There should not be any dependency.	Application should install successfully and ready for usage.
INS_023	Installer requires ADMIN privileges	Check for the user privileges before starting installation	1. Ensure installer is installed under ADMIN privileges	In most of the cases, installer requires ADMIN privileges
INS_024	Installing the application under different language OS	Check the installation of the application under different OS language (Korean OS)	1. Install the application and ensure user is able to launch the application under different language OS	Application should support different language OS
INS_025	Installing the application under full disk space drive	Check the installation of the application under disk full drive	1. Try to install the application under disk full drive 2. Check if installer is displaying error message to the user saying Disk is full and failed to install the application	Installer should display appropriate error message to the user.