15 Checklist Points For Your TYPO3 Testing

Are you done with the TYPO3 development of your website and, Is your TYPO3 website ready to go-live? Congratulations! Wait, Before you launch, Do you know, What is DoD - Definition of Done? Before you are going to launch your TYPO3 site, You should consider DoD with QC (Quality Checklist) and QA (Quality Assurance) TYPO3 testing of your website.

In our one-decade TYPO3 development experience, Many of our customers are facing quality issues with TYPO3 agencies that do not follow DoD. What are the best practices to get a green-signal to make live your TYPO3 website? So, when your website is live, you can enjoy your great time with your friends & family :) Team T3Planet is developing and maintaining many TYPO3 extensions and TYPO3 templates, and It’s our sole responsibility to keep maintain quality for our customer’s satisfaction.

At our production team, we have prepared a strong checklist at every division like for Frontend development, TYPO3 template integration, TYPO3 extension development, etc., And, at the end our TYPO3 QA testing team also take care of well maintenance and deployment of the end-product.

Here, we want to share a detailed list of the TYPO3 testing checklist which is used in our day-to-day life cycle in TYPO3 product development.

To maintain your TYPO3 website for hesitate-free and smooth deployment, We suggest you set up automatic deployment system.

It would be nice to have a deployment system to deploy your changes from a testing server to a live-server.

Based on your needs, You can define a number of stages for your deployment. We always set up the minimum following steps for the TYPO3 website development.

• Local Server Where Frontend & TYPO3 developers complete their code.
• Staging System, Where QA testing team checkout the whole TYPO3 website, Also customers get a chance to have test-driven as well as approval to make any particular changes to live.
• Production System, It’s Go-live your website.

It’s very important that your end-result TYPO3 website should be 1:1 of your design which has been prepared by your UI/UX graphics designer.

Many of our customers are requesting to have the following special cares, we always happy to take care.

• Pixel perfect 1:1 design match
• Strictly following of style guide throughout the website
• Perfect matching of alignment and spacing
• etc.,

Design Testing Tools & Techniques

Who knows what will happen tomorrow? Maybe your server may crash, or maybe your server may get hacked, delete files as human-errors and so on. Make sure to have regular TYPO3 backup and restore the system.

You may consider having common following best-practice to have TYPO3 backup.

• Should have a daily backup of your TYPO3 database
• Should have a weekly or monthly backup of your TYPO3 code
• Should set up an automatic TYPO3 backup system instead of manual backup
• Should perform maintenance with Git versioning
• Should secure your backup server
• Should do restore testing with your backup files
• Should consider 3-2-1 backup policy
• Should also take a backup of Email accounts

If your TYPO3 website has bigger functions like custom TYPO3 extensions or modules with shop, membership, payment integration etc. where the user will able to interact with real-time. Please consider having the following TYPO3 functional testing.

TYPO3 Functional Testing Types

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• Sanity Testing
• Interface Testing
• Regression testing
• Beta/Acceptance Testing

TYPO3 Non-functional Testing

• Performance Testing
• Load Testing
• Volume Testing
• Security Testing
• Install Testing
• Reliability Testing
• Compliance Testing
• Localization Testing

Functionality Testing Tools & Techniques

In the Content Management System, Better backend usability is very important. You need to sure, how can make TYPO3 editor friendly so easily add/edit pages and content.

Because, The ultimately TYPO3 editors are the people who will interact with TYPO3 backend in their day-to-day life. Here are the few TYPO3 checklists, you should consider for your TYPO3 editor.

• Should create special TYPO3 backend editor usergroup and user
• Should hide all unnecessary backend module
• Should easily create TYPO3 backend layout and frontend templates
• Should be hesitate-free TYPO3 content elements
• Should be able to configure TYPO3 core elements
• Should easily handle custom-developed TYPO3 extensions
• And so on.

Our all the Free & Premium TYPO3 templates are designed in a way where TYPO3 editor can easily manage their pages and content.

TYPO3 community started to work on TYPO3 GDPR compliance since starting. Make sure your TYPO3 website is well compatible with all standards of GDPR/DSGVO.

Check out our detailed TYPO3 blog on GDPR, and take action on your website from TYPO3 GDPR Essentials and Solutions.

Bonus!

Use the following tools & techniques to create screenshots and videos during your website’s testing.

I hope you have enjoyed and get testing knowledge.

So, Before you, go-live with your TYPO3 website always consider above 15 TYPO3 testing checklist which includes major points like security, backup, usability, functional, speed testing and much more.

Do you know any special TYPO3 website testing checklist? Please feel free to write your questions or suggestion to below comment box.

Have a Happy TYPO3 Testing :)