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Things to Remember

Production Organizations vs UAT Organizations

It’s important to know if you’re working and testing in a production environment vs a UAT environment. This will determine how your tests are processed and where they will end up.

Production Environments

WMC Production environments are connected to the production environments of all other applications needed for an order to successfully process. When checking to confirm a test order has processed successfully, you will want to check the Advantage Production area.

UAT Environments

WMC UAT environments are connected to the UAT environments of all other applications needed for an order to successfully process. Some things to keep in mind are these environments might not be as up-to-date as production environments. For example, Advantage Train is not refreshed as often as production, so choices (among other things) might not be available. When checking to confirm a test order has processed successfully, you will want to check the Advantage Train area. Please note only orders placed using the Vantiv test credit card numbers will be processed and visible in Advantage Train.

Browser Caching

Why?

To avoid any issues related to browser caching, here are some suggestions:

• Use an Incognito Window When Testing

• Add a Clear Cache Extension for Chrome or Firefox

• Disable Caching Using Chrome Developer Tools (Advanced)

• Test in Different Browsers

Testing on Internal and External Networks

Why?

Previewing Work

Why?

Select the Testing Scenario that Best Suits Your Needs

• I am just validating the flow of the funnel

• I am doing a complete test in a UAT environment (including processing the order)

• I am doing a complete test in a Production environment (including processing the order)

I am just validating the flow of the funnel
(for UAT and Production Environments)

What you will need:

1. One of the Billing First Names listed below

2. A valid email address

1. Open the link to the effort you are testing and navigate to the order form.

2. Enter the following into the First Name field within the billing address section:

3. Next, enter a valid email address

I am doing a complete test in a WMC Production Organization
(including processing the order)

Due to the fact that we are calling real banks to validate CC's in Production, the Vantiv test credit card data listed below cannot be used for validation. Instead, you'll need to utilize real credit cards or specific test data to bypass the fraud and authorization process. Once the test order is placed and processed, it will appear in Advantage Production.

Before you being placing your test order, verify/be mindful of a couple of things:

To successfully place a test order in a production environment:

1. Open the link to the effort you are testing and navigate to the order form.

2. On the order form, begin filling out the billing address section. In this section, use REAL addresses.

I am doing a complete test in WMC Production Organization (including processing the order) AND I want to simulate a new customer experience

In addition to everything covered in the section above (I am doing a complete test in a WMC Production Organization (including processing the order)), you'll need to use a new, unique email address to ensure the order isn't (immediately) consolidated with an existing account so you can test the new customer journey/experience. A good example of a use case for this is when you are using a magic link to have a customer set up their new username and password (versus requesting it on the order form) and want to test it.

You can continuously create new email accounts OR, an easier more efficient way is to use a Gmail hack (steps found below). This will 'trick' the middleware capsule system for the initial order, simulating a new customer so that you can test that use cases are working as intended. Eventually, once the order is processed in Advantage, the Gmail hack email/account will (likely) be consolidated to the existing, real account^*, so you won’t have a lot of unlinked accounts. 

_{*Exception: if a different name or address is used on the order form then the new account may not be consolidated with the existing one} 

Gmail hack

• Add “+1” (or any numbers/letters) to the end of the Gmail handle.

• The site will create new/unique customer 

• An email goes to the original Gmail inbox

I am doing a complete test in a WMC UAT Organization
(including processing the order)

You can do a complete end-to-end test using your affiliate’s UAT environment. Once you have set up a journey in the UAT environment, a test order can be placed. Once the test order is placed, it will appear in Advantage Train.

To successfully place a test order in a UAT environment:

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