CMS testing

Question

CMS

How to test the CMS as much as possible? Any CMS has rich functionality, how to test it with as little time as necessary and get the maximum result? What tools to use? I am familiar with functional and non-functional testing. It only excites the question of how to start everything, write documentation for yourself, test plan, etc., etc.?

Answer 1

A couple of options:
This is if there is no testing before you or very weak:

1) Выписать все основные компоненты
2) Определить приоритет данных компонентов для заказчика, пользователя
3) Написать чек-лист для основных функций, частей, компонентов
4) Выполнять чек-листы от сборки к сборке, расширяя и дополняя их

New releases (with new functionality):

1) также используя чек-лист проверять новый функционал искать точки функционала который затронут изменениями.
2) Смотреть базовый функционал.

I think for a start (if you start all testing from scratch) a completely suitable plan, tested on my own experience.

And then look whether test cases are needed and in what form. As for the Plan, it must be in any case either in the head or on paper. He began to be born in me when he took on the definition of components, somehow by itself.

Answer 2

Divide by parameters: tasks, functionality, user. Make a table, find relationships. Then the structure of the CMS becomes visible. That is, in fact, you unravel the tangle of CMS creators :) Which columns - depends on the CMS and on the tasks that you set for yourself.

Answer 3

Hire a hireling whose question is "how to start?" does not disturb.