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Magento is still one of the most popular eCommerce platforms, even though there are dozens of other tools available to use in custom web design and development in the world. Magento is an open-source platform, it’s an affordable choice for a whole range of business websites, from small local stores all the way up to huge international chains. QA Madness constantly receives orders for the testing of Magento site, and attention to this platform just increasing. Have you even known how it's started? Here's a brief Magento history: Magento officially started development in early 2007 by company called Varien (Roy Rubin and Yoav Kutner). Seven months later, on August 31, 2007, the first public beta version was released. It was originally going to be called ‘Bento’ however, another company had already trademarked the name. Instead, they fused it with ‘Mage’ to form Magento, the name which the platform still goes by today. After much success with the first beta version, Varien ...

Here are some possible reasons: 1. Your Store Policies Are Not Clear or Are Too Restrictive Buying online is convenient, but people look for brick and mortar style assurance, too. They want to know they can easily return products or contact someone about trouble with your service. 2. Not Flexible Shipping Options Free shipping is big with shoppers, and is quickly becoming an industry standard. Maybe this isn’t within your budget, but you may be able to shift some numbers around to make it fly. Testing will reveal what works best for you. Just make sure customers are aware of your free shipping option if you offer it. 3. Not Mobile Friendly If you haven’t overhauled your design in the past two years, here’s your likely problem. Studies show that mobile shoppers account for nearly 50% of top retailers’ customers. 4. Customers Have Trust Issues With Your Site These potential customers want to know their transactions are secure and verifying with a trusted third party can h...

Magento, as one of the leading eCommerce platforms, is used to create the most successful and high-quality online stores. The great variety of eCommerce websites, make quite serious competition on the market and the main point that will help you to be on the Toplist is Quality. Without proper testing, "sketchy" websites may face a number of challenges after launch. Based on our experience, we have compiled a list of the most "popular" bugs that we faced during Magento testing. Here are the most common of them: Bug #1: You can’t rate the product or write a review for it. It’s not the most critical bug, but it still can bugs people. The lack of opportunities to share their experiences with others can bring customers to the idea that you don't want to have truthful reviews on the website, so this may push for the idea that something is wrong with your product. Bug #2: Problems with registration Your business may have serious consequences due to the challenge with the registrati...

What is your association with term "superhero"? For many of you, the image of superhero will remind you about the feeling of reliability and protection. Each superhero stands against the evil force by day and night. I'll reveal one amazing secret to you today... At the spare time, between fights against crime, brave superheroes protect your websites and apps! Yes, superheroes working as testers for a long time! Think about it... They are hidden in the shadows. No rest, no peace, no sleep until they capture a villain and hand them over to the authorities. They are the Keepers of your reputation in the Digital World! Nevertheless, who are they? Let the Secret be revealed! Who: Captain America How to find out: supercorrect, strict, the true patriot. His mind is only about the "quality, quality, quality", and is better not to joke with him.  Having Captain America in your team is gorgeous! He will hunt bugs in the name of Quality to his last breath. During testing, he looks like a...

Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words, software testing is a verification and validation process. This article is devoted to highlighting the most popular software testing tools nowadays. Performance Testing Tools: Here are some important tools to test the performance, load and stress of the website/application. These tools ensure that your website/application will run under high performance and less load & stress. Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for web applications testing but has expanded to other test functions since. LoadRunner is a load testing tool for Windows and Linux, given by HP to test the web and other applications very efficiently before it goes to end us...

First of all, what is “software bug”? Everyone understands that it isn’t an insect ( well, not anymore, anyway :-) ). According to Wikipedia: software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.” Some bugs can be detected easily during development. But some bugs might be found late in the development process. There have been many attempts to classify the bugs. Most of these represent the general classification which is valid in the cycle of software development and evolution. The classification scheme given in Orthogonal Defect Classification defines eight categories of defects as assignment, checking, algorithm, interface, timing/serial, function documentation, and build/pack/merge. Most everything in such classification understandable, useful and boring. But, sometimes, going through a code, you may face a dark horse from the bug's world. There are ...

In honor of Women's Day, we would like to pay tribute to the women in Information Technology. Modern IT world viewed only as "a boy's thing". But this is not totally true. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. Now, less than 25% of the IT workforce are women, but in the software testing sector the percentage filled by women is now approaching 50%. Women’s typical cognitive differences make them invaluable to IT teams. Let's pay attention to the history. One might believe that women did not play an important role in the beginnings of computer science, but in reality they have made significant contributions in many areas, starting from the early days. In any discussion of the pioneers in computing, the names of two visionaries immediately come to mind: Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace (1815 – 1852). She is often described as theworld's first computer programmer. Analyst, metaphysician, and founder of scientific comput...