BigCommerce test automation
Commerce & search
Themes, apps and checkout settings change often. DoesQA proves your BigCommerce store still sells after every change.
What we test on BigCommerce
Category pages, search and product pages
Cart, checkout and payment
Promotions and discount codes
Customer accounts
Orders in the control panel
How to test BigCommerce
Start on a BigCommerce sandbox or other non-production store, not the live shop.
Test the path that takes money first: find a product, add it to the cart, apply a promotion if you use one, and complete checkout with that store’s published test payment details. Prove an approved payment and a declined one, then confirm the order in the control panel.
Run that journey after every theme or app update, and whenever checkout settings change.
In DoesQA, you build that shopper journey as a Flow and run it from CI in a hosted real browser. If card fields sit in an iframe, use Switch Frame, Set value and Switch to parent frame. You can also call your order API from the same Flow, with GET and Check JSON Value, to prove the order arrived.
BigCommerce test checklist
Search and product pages show the products you expect.
Add to cart, apply a promotion if you use one, and check the totals.
Complete checkout as a guest and as a signed-in customer, using published test payment details. Prove an approved payment and a declined one.
Confirm the order in the control panel.
Where BigCommerce tests usually break
Theme and app updates rewrite the storefront.
A theme or app change can move a button or alter checkout. Re-run the same shopper journey after every update, before customers hit the shop. In DoesQA, trigger that run from CI in a hosted real browser.
Card fields often sit in a payment iframe.
The test has to step into the frame, fill the published test details, step back out, then pay. In DoesQA, that is Switch Frame, Set value and Switch to parent frame, then Checks on the confirmation.
Sandbox catalogues can differ from live.
Point the test at a non-production store, and use products and promotions you control.
What you need to get started
A BigCommerce sandbox or other non-production storefront URL, plus at least one buyable test product.
Test payment details from the payment method on that store, not live cards. See BigCommerce’s official docs: BigCommerce developer quick start (fetched 10 November 2026). For 3D Secure, see that page.
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Our customers test BigCommerce with DoesQA on every release.
