Igor Bondarenko

Process organization of the Magento

modules development.

About Myself

• 10 years in IT

• 2 years in Magento

Development

• Head of Business

Development in Neklo

What would I talking

about?

• How to choose an idea

• Selecting a tools

• How to prepare a team

• Development processes

• Advises to developers

• QA and Testing

• How to release an extension

Assign choosing of

ideas to the business

development team

After choosing the idea,

calculate the economic

feasibility of extension

development

Do NOT delegate

choosing of the idea to

developer

The idea is chosen, it's time to start developing. But

before you start designing, you must define the tools

Self-developed tools

• Mageinstall

• Cloud VM Server

• “Custom Store”

• QA Test Scripts

Available for all tools

• VCS

• Developer Toolbar

• Log Popup

• Turn Developer Mode On

• Setup Issue Tracker

Formation of the team.

Use narrowly skilled

professionals.

Working with a team of 2

or more people

• Select Team lead

• Split Magento Versions

• Tasks decomposition

• Assign tasks to skilled person

Team of one developer

• Start working with minor Magento versions

• Develop extension sequentially:

• Backend

• Admin part

• Frontend

What about Magento 2 ?

The speed and cost of

development will not change

Start extensions

migration form the

simplest solution

Next slide will be a

boring slide for

developers only.

How to provide compatibility

with third-party extensions?

What should developers

team do?

• Use integration through events

• Do not use Rewrite

• Use frontend integration life

hacks:

• Layout substitution

• JS Injection

What should QA team do?

• Test on “working” Magento

• Test compatibility with top

rated extensions

• Do NOT test compatibility with

all of extensions

• Code Review

• Use Code Style

• Pair Programming

Testing of extensions

Key points of

testing process

• Stop development until the end of

first QA iteration

• Switch project during first

iteration of testing

• Starting from the second iteration

of testing start to work in parallel

with the QA team

Test Automation

• Tests should be written by QA

Team

• Don’t use complex

frameworks:

• Short-term activity

• Skilled QA

• Negative ROI

What to use for test automation?

Use Selenium IDE or SpiderTest:•Powerful test recorder

•Testers should not have

programming skills

•Developers could use any

programming language

•Lightweight scripts

•Easy to attach scripts to defects

•Free tools

Ready for release?

But don’t you forgot nothing?

Forgot to test readiness

for loading in Magento

Connect

• Build a package

• First load and wait for

approve, then promote

• Test installation file per

file

Key success factors

• Perform business analysis

• Using high-quality and thoughtful

tools

• Using narrowly skilled

professionals

• Don’t forgot testing

Thank you for attention!

Skype: igor.bondarenko1E-mail: igor.bondarenko@neklo.com