Checkout journey test
A synthetic shopper walks your checkout the way a customer does, step by step, and stops where they would stop. When a step fails it keeps the evidence.
The free run scans the storefront. The journey itself runs in a real browser, on a monitored site.
What a journey test actually proves
Unit tests prove your code does what it did yesterday. A journey proves the assembled thing still sells — your code, the theme, the payment provider, the consent banner and the shipping rules, in one sequence, from outside. Nothing else covers the seams between them.
- Every step asserted
Product, cart, address, shipping, payment — each one, in order.
- Evidence on failure
Screenshot, DOM, network trace and the step it reached.
- Duration per step
The step that got slower before it got broken.
- Re-run on deploy
The journey runs again when a release is recorded.
What a result looks like
Stalled at payment. Evidence captured at 14:22.
Normal. The failure was not a timeout.
Re-run after the deploy, three passes to close.
The run names the step, keeps what the page looked like at that moment, and links the deploy that preceded it. A failed journey is not asserted fixed by anyone — it closes when the check passes again, twice.
A run tells you about today. Monitoring tells you at 04:00.
Checkout breaks between the parts nobody owns: a payment SDK updates itself, a tag manager script blocks the button, a selector moves in a theme release. Running the journey on a schedule turns that from a Monday-morning discovery into a Saturday-night alert with the failing step attached.
Common questions
- Is this the same engine as the paid monitoring?
- Yes — the same checks, run the same way. The difference is that monitoring repeats them on a schedule and keeps the history, which is what turns a number into a trend and a trend into an alert.
- Does testing my site slow it down or change anything?
- No. Everything is read from the outside, the way a visitor arrives — no agent, no script on your pages, nothing written. Our requests identify themselves so you can recognise them in your own logs.
- What happens when the page changes and the step cannot be found?
- The run fails, which is the correct answer — a checkout that genuinely disappeared must not look like a passing test. Where we can identify the same field under a new selector, we propose the change with the evidence and wait for you to approve it.
- Do I have to write code to define a journey?
- No. Steps are defined against what a customer sees — click this, fill that, expect this text — and each one is named, so a failed run reads as a sentence rather than a stack trace.
Related tests
A free test is a snapshot. Monitoring is the product.