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eCommerce QA: Beyond Load and Performance Testing
Blog post from BrowserStack
Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Payal Dinodia
Word Count
1,157
Language
English
Hacker News Points
2
Summary
The article discusses the importance of end-to-end testing for eCommerce platforms, especially during peak shopping seasons like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It highlights how front-end bugs can impact customer experience and revenue just as significantly as server downtime. The article suggests strategies to improve quality assurance (QA) in the run-up to these high-traffic periods, including focusing QA efforts on testing, creating more 'checkpoints' across the release pipeline, and testing against a wide range of device/browser combinations. It also provides resources for further reading on this topic.