Installation and Varnish tests

The Installation and Varnish tests are automated EQP checks to ensure that the submitted app or extension version is compatible with the Adobe Commerce versions and the editions that it claims to support.

Varnish tests are available for extensions only. Limited automated installation testing is available for Apps.

What testing is for

Commerce is a complex, highly extensible platform. To ensure that third-party apps and extensions are production-ready, the Installation and Varnish tests verify successful installation with the app or extension included, the ability to switch to production mode, and that the app or extension does not affect the caching mechanism for the most critical scenarios. The caching check ensures that the storefront provides a high performance customer experience.

When testing is done

All app and extension submissions must pass the mandatory Installation and Varnish tests, regardless of type and scope of changes. Only apps and extensions that have passed these tests can be listed in the Commerce Marketplace.

What is being checked

The Installation and Varnish tests complete the following checks:

Successful installation of Commerce with the submitted extension and ability to switch to production mode. This check includes the following steps:
- Verify ability to add the extension to the Commerce project with Composer or the ability to add the app with Node.js.
- After adding and enabling the app or extension, verify successful Commerce installation.
- Verify that you can compile code.
- Verify that you can deploy static content.
- Verify that you can enable production mode.
- Check that you can reindex all data with the installed extension.
Check availability of critical pages and correct cache processing–This check includes the following steps:
- Complete acceptance testing to validate that product and category pages are properly cached.
- Complete acceptance testing to validate that the product and category page cache is reset when a product is edited.
- Verify that different product types are validated.

Tools and environments used

The Commerce test infrastructure follows the recommended setup for the Commerce installation. The Installation and Varnish tests always runs on the most up-to-date version of software compatible with the Commerce release. You can use Magento Cloud Docker to create a similar environment.

The Installation and Varnish tests always use the latest patch version for the Magento release line that the submitted extension claims to support. For each supported release line, the entire test suite is performed on all compatible PHP versions.

Additional configuration

The Varnish test requires Varnish as a caching application. The test checks for the presence of the X-EQP-Cache HTTP header set by Varnish and analyzes its value on page loads. To complete this check, the following additional instruction must be added to the vcl_deliver function:

sub vcl_deliver {
    if (resp.http.x-varnish ~ " ") {
        set resp.http.X-EQP-Cache = "HIT";
    } else {
        set resp.http.X-EQP-Cache = "MISS";
    }
    ...
}
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sub vcl_deliver {
    if (resp.http.x-varnish ~ " ") {
        set resp.http.X-EQP-Cache = "HIT";
    } else {
        set resp.http.X-EQP-Cache = "MISS";
    }
    ...
}

The Varnish test also uses the setup:performance:generate-fixtures command to install sample products to run the test against:

magento setup:performance:generate-fixtures ./varnish-config/profile.xml
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magento setup:performance:generate-fixtures ./varnish-config/profile.xml

*./varnish-config/profile.xml* file contents

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
    <profile>
        <admin_users>1</admin_users> <!--  Number of admin users to generate -->
        <websites>1</websites> <!--  Number of websites to generate -->
        <store_groups>1</store_groups> <!--Number of stores-->
        <store_views>1</store_views> <!--  Number of store views -->
        <assign_entities_to_all_websites>0</assign_entities_to_all_websites> <!--  Whether to assign all products per each website -->
        <simple_products>10</simple_products> <!--  Simple products count -->
        <categories>2</categories> <!--  Number of categories to generate -->
        <configs> <!--  Config variables and values -->
            <config>
                <path>admin/security/use_form_key</path>
                <scope>default</scope>
                <scopeId>0</scopeId>
                <value>0</value>
            </config>
            <config>
                <path>system/full_page_cache/caching_application</path>
                <scope>default</scope>
                <scopeId>0</scopeId>
                <value>2</value>
            </config>
        </configs>
    </profile>
</config>
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
    <profile>
        <admin_users>1</admin_users> <!--  Number of admin users to generate -->
        <websites>1</websites> <!--  Number of websites to generate -->
        <store_groups>1</store_groups> <!--Number of stores-->
        <store_views>1</store_views> <!--  Number of store views -->
        <assign_entities_to_all_websites>0</assign_entities_to_all_websites> <!--  Whether to assign all products per each website -->
        <simple_products>10</simple_products> <!--  Simple products count -->
        <categories>2</categories> <!--  Number of categories to generate -->
        <configs> <!--  Config variables and values -->
            <config>
                <path>admin/security/use_form_key</path>
                <scope>default</scope>
                <scopeId>0</scopeId>
                <value>0</value>
            </config>
            <config>
                <path>system/full_page_cache/caching_application</path>
                <scope>default</scope>
                <scopeId>0</scopeId>
                <value>2</value>
            </config>
        </configs>
    </profile>
</config>

Varnish test execution

The Varnish test issues a series of requests, and then analyzes the value of the X-EQP-Cache HTTP header:

Check the value of the X-EQP-Cache header by submitting the following series of requests two times to the same URL to verify the cache operation.
- On the first set of requests against a fresh installation, the test verifies that each response returns the X-EQP-Cache header with the MISS value because the page has never been cached.
- On the second set of requests, the test verifies that each response returns the X-EQP-Cache header with the HIT value because the page was added to the cache after the initial request.
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-1.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-2.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-3.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/category-1.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/category-2.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/"
After updating product prices, the test runs the following requests to verify that the FPC cache is cleared:
- PUT "https://\<magento-host>/rest/V1/products/product_dynamic_1" with {"product":{"price":"999.99"}}
- PUT "https://\<magento-host>/rest/V1/products/product_dynamic_2" with {"product":{"price":"999.99"}}
- PUT "https://\<magento-host>/rest/V1/products/product_dynamic_3" with {"product":{"price":"999.99"}}
After the FPC cache has been cleared, verify the cache operation again by submitting the following series of requests two times to the same URL to verify the cache operation.
- On the first set of requests, the test verifies that each response returns the X-EQP-Cache header with the MISS value because the cache was cleared and the page has not been cached yet.
- On the second set of requests, the test verifies that each response returns the X-EQP-Cache header with the HIT value because the page was added to the cache after the previous request.
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-1.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-2.html"
  - GET "https://\<magento-host>/simple-product-3.html"

Reading the error report

The Installation test returns the logs of the Commerce CLI commands. You can reproduce any error in the log by running the failed command in a local environment.

The Varnish test provides the following information about failures:

A brief description of the failed scenario
Expected and actual cache behavior (HIT or MISS for cached page)

To debug Varnish test errors, we recommend using a locally installed Commerce version with the Varnish cache configured to submit requests and check the HTTP headers in the response.

Troubleshooting

If the submission fails Installation and Varnish testing, and you cannot reproduce or troubleshoot the issues locally, create a Support ticket to request assistance. Ensure that the relevant Submission ID is included on the ticket.

We always welcome feedback and discussion on the Magento Community Engineering Slack #marketplace channel.

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