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Headless 360Beginnertestinggo-live

What should you test before launching a headless site?

Real World Scenario

Go-live is Friday. You list minimum tests a junior should run on staging.

Expected Answer

• End-to-end guest and logged-in checkout with payment sandbox • OAuth login, logout, and token refresh on mobile and web • Order appears correctly in CRM with matching customer and line items • Error handling when APIs timeout—friendly message, no stack traces • Load smoke test on product browse and search under expected traffic

Follow-Up Questions & Answers

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Sessions fail silently after hours if refresh breaks. Long-running cart abandonment flows expose this bug.

Architect Perspective

Headless go-live checklist: auth, checkout, CRM sync, failures, monitor—five words to memorize.