Automated tools that check that my website's key functions still work fine?
Are there any great tools you would recommend to check whether critical user workflows break on a website?
Sometimes things break on one of my websites and I only notice days later that they did. I was thinking of some type of crawler or sth. alike that would behave like a user, conduct a purchase (for example) and confirm that things still work.
Looking forward to your ideas/thoughts or tool suggestions.
Hey Alex,
I don't have personal experience with these tool, but it looks like they may work for your needs:
https://www.pingdom.com/synthetic-monitoring/
https://www.uptrends.com/lp/website-monitoring
https://cronitor.io/uptime-monitoring
This article covers some others:
https://geekflare.com/monitor-website-uptime/
Thanks, Mike. I hope your are well these days!
I have worked with Pingdom, but currently rather look for a tool that actually mimics a specific user journey (in comparison to only testing whether a website is online). In other words, I would love to have a bot that checks out every other day by itself or signs up in my forms and reports back when something fails. Hope this makes sense..
Hey Alex, based on what I read, the above services did exactly that. They stimulate a user / visitor flow.
They doint just check to see if the website is up. They do much more.
AH, you are right! I just saw the "multi-step transactions" testing description on the pingdom website... that sounds indeed promising. Guess I will need to take a deeper look. Thanks!
I've used n8n.io to automate some of this. I did a write up for one specific task:
https://automationcookbook.io/make-sure-this-isnt-the-reason-youre-not-getting-subscribers/
Is this something you want to do often? Are there other workflows that you'd like a monitor on? I figured most important are probably signup and subscribe. But are there other high value ones?
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
For me, purchases via Stripe / Paypal are most important.. as well as email signups.. correct!
Could you use something like Cypress on a fixed schedule?
Amazing, this looks very promising already - will give it a spin! Seems much easier than Selenium-based options.. Thank you!