5 Levels of Automated Testing of an E-commerce Project
summary
Five concrete testing layers for an e-commerce stack: fast unit tests that run 1,000+ tests in 4s against the shops framework, functional tests that boot services and roll back DB transactions to validate persistence and integration, broad but shallow Chavez HTTP smoke testing for every registered route (checks only HTTP status), heavyweight browser acceptance tests via Selenium that cover business flows but are brittle, and Gatling load tests to catch scale problems (50 → 50,000 products). Continuous integration with Jenkins and PHPStan rounds out the pipeline.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00What is testing
- 1:48Unit testing
- 5:39Functional testing
- 10:01HTTP smoke tests
- 11:44Advantages of smoke tests
- 15:17Advantages of acceptance tests
- 18:52Advantages of performance tests
- 23:19Coding standards
- 24:41Static analysis
- 25:07Architecture sniff
- 25:38Continuous integration
- 26:06Jenkins
- 26:52Resources
- 27:34Questions
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