Magento Testing

Peculiarities of Magento E-Commerce Testing

Magento powers millions of online stores and is the primary point of sale system for businesses around the world. Like any complex software solution, a Magento e-shop needs to be thoroughly tested prior to launch. The CMS itself works just fine since it has been tested by the provider. However, if you decide to modify it, even just a little bit, the system can become unpredictable.

Magneto Testing with QA Madness

QA Madness has been working with Magento from the early days of the company’s existence. Our specialists help e-commerce companies optimize and streamline their online stores on the Magento, paying special attention to:

Extensions and add-ons that are used to enhance the standard functionality.
Integrations with CRM, ERP, etc. that connect a platform to a company’s ecosystem.
The payment functionality, meant to support a variety of payment methods.
What about Magento certifications for QA specialists? There are qualifications for Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Commerce Architects, etc. In other words, there are training courses, resources, and certifications for those who build stores (both in terms of coding and strategy) but not those who test them (at least not yet).

Magento Testing Challenges

It is necessary to test every Magento store from both client’s and owner’s point of view. In both cases, the two main aspects to check are platform functionality and performance – its features and speed.

To verify that the implemented features meet the requirements, QA engineers run functional testing. They check, in particular, the following things:

  • Design and features of item pages.
  • Searching, sorting, and filtering.
  • Forms, buttons, links.
  • Price generation and calculations.
  • Coupon and promo code validation.
  • Purchasing functionality.
  • Payment gateway.
  • Order management.
  • Installation of extensions.

An ability to handle average, peak and extreme loads is a subject to investigate during performance testing. During this set of activities, QA engineers model different traffic conditions to make sure that a platform is ready to handle real users.

Types of Testing for Magento E-Shop

Manual and Automated E-Commerce Testing for Magento Websites

Manual
Magento Testing

QA specialists use manual testing when working with the new features. It is also the best option when software testers need to check unstable functionality, inspect a buggy platform, or test a product quickly.

Automated
Magento Testing

Automated testing comes in later – when a product already has stable core functionality. Most often, we automate smoke and regression tests meant to check the functionality after some changes.

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