Test deployment

Previous step:

When your code, files, and data is successfully migrated to Staging or Production, use the environment URLs to test your site(s) and store(s). For a list of your URLs, see Starter and Pro access information.

The following information provides information on verifying logs, testing Fastly configurations, user acceptence testing (UAT), and more.

Log files

If you encounter errors on deployment or other issues when testing, check the log files. Log files are located under the var/log directory.

The deployment log is located in /var/log/platform/<prodject ID>/post_deploy.log. The value of <project ID> depends on the project ID and whether the environment is Staging or Production. For example, with a project ID of yw1unoukjcawe, the Staging user is yw1unoukjcawe_stg and the Production user is yw1unoukjcawe.

When accessing logs in Production, you may need to SSH into each of the three nodes to locate the logs.

For more information, see View logs for troubleshooting

Check the code base

Verify your master code base correctly deployed to Staging and Production environments. The environments should have identical code bases.

Verify configuration settings

Check the Magento configuration settings through the Admin panel including the Base URL, Base Admin URL, multi-site settings, and more. If you need to make any additional changes, complete edits in your local Git branch and push to the master branch in Integration, Staging, and Production.

Check Fastly caching

Verify Fastly is caching properly on Staging and Production. Configuring Fastly requires careful attention to details, using the correct Fastly Service ID and Fastly API key, and a proper VCL snippet uploaded.

First, check for headers with a dig command to the URL. In a terminal application, enter dig <url> to verify Fastly services display in the headers. For additional dig tests, see Fastly’s Testing before changing DNS.

The following examples use Pro URLs. You can use any URL with the dig command.

Staging: dig http[s]://staging.<your domain>.c.<instanceid>.ent.magento.cloud
Production: dig http[s]://<your domain>.{1|2|3}.<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud

Next, use a curl command to verify X-Magento-Tags exist and additional header information. The format for the command is:

curl http[s]://<full site URL> -H "host: <url>" -k -vo /dev/null -HFastly-Debug:1

For Starter, enter the full site URL from your environment Access info in the command to view the headers.

For Pro Staging and Production, the command differs per server:

Staging: curl http[s]://staging.<your domain>.c.<instanceid>.ent.magento.cloud -H "host: <url>" -k -vo /dev/null -HFastly-Debug:1
Production:
- The load balancer: curl http[s]://<your domain>.c.<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud -H "host: <url>" -k -vo /dev/null -HFastly-Debug:1
- A direct Origin node: curl http[s]://<your domain>.{1|2|3}.<project ID>.ent.magento.cloud -H "host: <url>" -k -vo /dev/null -HFastly-Debug:1

After you are live, you can also check your live site: curl https://<your domain> -k -vo /dev/null -HFastly-Debug:1. You can also add --resolve if your live URL is not set up with DNS.

Check the returned response headers and values:

Fastly-Magento-VCL-Uploaded should be present
X-Magento-Tags should be returned
Fastly-Module-Enabled should be either Yes or the Fastly extension version number
X-Cache should be either HIT or HIT, HIT
x-cache-hits should be 1,1
Cache-Control: max-age should be greater than 0
Pragma should be cache

To verify Fastly is enabled in Staging and Production, check the configuration in the Magento Admin for each environment:

Log into the Admin console for Staging and Production using the URL with /admin (or the changed Admin URL).
Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Advanced > System. Scroll and click Full Page Cache.
Ensure Fastly CDN is selected.
Click on Fastly Configuration. Ensure the Fastly Service ID and Fastly API token are entered (your Fastly credentials). Verify you have the correct credentials entered for the Staging and Production environment. Click Test credentials to help.

Make sure you entered the correct Fastly Service ID and API token in your Staging and Production environments. If you enter Staging credentials in your Production environment, you may not be able to upload your VCL snippets, caching will not work correctly, and your caching will be pointed to the wrong server and stores. Your Fastly credentials are created and mapped per service environment.

The module must be enabled to cache your site. If you have additional extensions enabled that affect headers, one of them could cause issues with Fastly. If you have further issues, see Set up Fastly and Fastly troubleshooting.

Complete UAT testing

Complete User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on Staging and Production. The following tests are a quick list of possible tasks and areas to test as a Merchant and Customer. Your list may be longer and include additional tests for custom modules, extensions, and 3rd party integrations. When testing, use desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

If you encounter issues, save your reproduction steps, error messages, strange screen captures, and links. Use this information to investigate and fix issues in Integration environment code and configurations or environment settings.

User management	Create and edit customer accounts, verify emails Create Admin roles for merchants Create merchant accounts with specific roles Test merchant account access per role
Catalogs & Products	Create a catalog with associated products Create products for your storefront, including all product types: simple, configurable, bundled, etc Add product images, swatches, videos, and other media options Configure price, discounts, pricing rules Configure advanced features including price ranges, featured products, availability dates Modify inventory and verify correct values display and change per increase and completed purchase
Carts & Checkout	Search for products and select filtering options Add products to the cart from search results, category pages, product pages Test all product types View the cart and modify contents by removing or changing amounts Go through checkout to verify the order amounts against the cart and product info Verify tax correctly calculates for the cart Complete a purchase with different options: add a coupon, select shipping, enter shipping and billing information, and payment information Verify payment gateways and options during checkout Check for on screen notifications, orders listed in the customer account, and email notifications Test guest and customer checkout
Order management	Create an order for a customer Search for and view orders Modify an order by adding and removing products, changing amounts, modifying shipping and billing information Handle a refund Cancel an order Apply coupon codes and discounts
Site content	Check all themes and assets load correctly Verify CSS displays correctly, including responsive media sizes Check Terms & Conditions, refund policy, and other policy information Check contact information, links, and more about your company Search for products and content, check filtering of results Verify the footer block and top navigation blocks Test the 404 and Maintenance pages
Extensions	Verify all extension settings, especially for any taxation, shipping, and payment modules (example: order sent to warehouse and financial mgmt system) Test all customized module and installed Magento extension interactions Check data for any interactions that should complete (payments, orders, email notifications, etc) Check configurations per environment for your extensions Verify dependencies between modules and extensions work Check all actions as a merchant and a customer
3rd party integrations	Verify data correctly saves in Magento and exports, pushes, or is accessible by the 3rd party service (example: orders display in 3rd party order mgmt system) Verify any configurations and interactions per integration Perform round trip tests originating in Magento and your 3rd party service Verify authentication completes Check for any logged issues to update code integrations or error messages in control panels
Backend testing	Test and clear cache Perform reindexes and verify results Check Magento cron jobs, check for any cron_schedule errors Verify and check for any shell script issues Check for any logged issues: Magento logs, PHP logs, MySQL logs, email logs

Complete load and stress tests

Before launching, we highly recommend performing extensive traffic and performance testing on your Staging and Production environments. You should consider performance testing for your frontend and backend processes.

Before you begin testing, please enter a ticket with support advising the environments you are testing, what tools you are using, and the time frame. Update the ticket with results and information to track performance. When you complete testing, add your updated results and note in the ticket testing is complete with a date and time stamp.

We recommend that you review the Magento Performance Toolkit options as part of your pre-launch readiness process.

For best results, we recommend the following tools:

Siege: Traffic shaping and testing software to push your store to the limit. Hit your site with a configurable number of simiulated clients. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols.
Jmeter: Excellent load testing to help gauge performance for spiked traffic, like for flash sales. Create custom tests to run against your site.
New Relic (provided): Helps locate processes and areas of the site causing slow performance with tracked time spent per action like transmitting data, queries, Redis, and so on.
Blackfire (provided): Helps track through the issues New Relic finds and helps you dig deeper into the issue for specifics. Blackfire profiles the environment and helps locate bottlenecks indepth: process, method call, query, load, and so on.
WebPageTest and Pingdom: Real-time analysis of your site pages load time with different origin locations. Pingdom may cost a fee. WebPageTest is a free tool.

Set up Magento Security Scan Tool

We provide a free Security Scan Tool for your sites. To add your sites and run the tool, see Magento Security Scan Tool.

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