Upgrade Magento to the latest version

It’s well-known that the Magento team announces new platform upgrades quite often. There is a minor upgrade every second month and a more critical upgrade with new features and more changes to the core almost every quarter on average. If we look back, since the release of Magento 2.0 in November 2015 there were around 30 releases for Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce. Looks like a lot, doesn’t it? So the question arises: do these changes actually bring any value to the website?

Custom Module upgrade: PHP Serialiazed to JSON

After the latest Database data format changes in Magento 2.2.x version, there is a need to convert existing PHP serialized data to JSON format. The new release provides upgrade scripts that convert Magento serialized data. But how to deal with custom extensions, which also use automatic serialization mechanism provided by Magento framework? Thankfully, Magento took care of that too.

Custom Module upgrade: PHP Serialiazed to JSON

The new Magento 2.2 release replaces the usage of default PHP serialized format to JSON format. The release also upgrades scripts that convert Magento data that is stored in serialized format e.g. Magento\Sales\Setup\SerializedDataConverter, Magento\Sales\Setup\SalesOrderPaymentDataConverter, Magento\Framework\DB\DataConverter\SerializedToJson classes. These major changes may affect the correct functionality of already existing custom modules and related data that is stored in the database.

Testing checklist after Magento upgrade

It is important to keep your online store updated to the latest Magento version, as it has the most recent improvements, security updates, and other fixes. And every time such upgrade is performed, the website should be carefully tested to make sure that all issues or conflicts are fixed after the upgrade.

Today we want to share with you our test cases after Magento upgrade that we normally use testing Magento stores.