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Ask HN: How do you test your CMS-based website deployments?
9 points by andrei_says_ on April 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Enterprise CMSs have a lot of complexity and my small team is looking for tools to improve the efficiency and coverage of QA.

After seeing some unexpected bugs post code deployments, we’ve started looking into testing tools which would automate the task of spot-checking the site functionality.

This is despite developing on a test server and slotting time for testing.

We have a large number of pages, many of which have content changing over time. A test suite would need to accommodate that.

I’d love to hear about your choice of tools and process.



I'm curious what enterprise CMS you use. I work in enterprise CMS from last 7 years and would love to know your use case in detail. I can tell you that this is definitely a issue with many organizations face but none of the cms offers an OOTB functionality to cover this.


I was not looking for ootb but hoping to hear about a solid process based on selenium or similar system.


Visual diff tools that visually compare screenshots of URLs for previous and new deploys are really useful. I can recommend https://github.com/garris/BackstopJS


I'm curious to know more about the kinds of bugs you are seeing and if there might be a tool to help. Can you provide your email or email ryan@rcpsystems.com? I'd like to ask you some questions.


Thank you, I’ll get in touch on Monday.




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