Quality in a Composable World

Delivering quality in a Composable Commerce World

Cabiri has been delivering Composable Commerce projects for many years, each featuring a differing mix of composable offerings that need stitching together to form a cohesive system. We pride ourselves on bringing these systems to market quickly following up by iterating through short development cycles to deliver new features enhancing customer experience and giving business agility to succeed.

How do we do this?

Implementing a composable commerce solution is all about moving data from one SaaS offering to another securely and accurately. Our software creates the configurations and connections to make composable possible, so we need a strategy that will test this quickly and reliably.

All code written by modern development teams should undergo unit, integration and end-to-end testing before non-functional testing such as performance or security testing takes place. For us at Cabiri, it is all about getting the mix of testing types right, when delivering a cloud-based application which connects many other applications. We place a heavy emphasis on integration testing the deployed application and having the integration tests that interact with the real composable components is key. We leverage a sophisticated CI pipeline that generates each pull request's code as a full deployed stack to provide the invaluable early feedback that this may provide.

After integration testing we perform end-to-end testing with an eye on data integrity, we have to ensure each of the systems within our solution is consistent. This is not always straightforward as each system will undergo different processes and orchestrations as part of a test across the entire stack. Our tests have to be adaptable enough to handle this and feedback accurately if there is a percieved failure to be rectified and the system has not achieved consistency.

Above all else we need to ensure that these tests run against the fully deployed PR-based application in a timely reliable manner, this gives our development teams the best chance at project success and our release teams the information they need to keep the new features and the new orders flowing.

Cabiri has used this approach to bring composable commerce projects to life in under three months, releasing new features on a daily basis and realising early the return on investment for many businesses that thought composable would be far away, by leveraging the flexibility and power of individual SaaS providers.

This test approach and the supporting pipelines feature in both our commerce accelerators allowing all our customers to benefit from our years of experience.