Coding Standards & QA

Quality WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify Coding Standards

Many businesses have been burned by the disappointment of finally receiving a website or new feature, only to find a fundamental flaw. And even if a solution looks shiny upon delivery, that doesn’t mean it’s going to function well later on down the line.

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Marketing agencies do content checks. As a development shop, we do code checks.

You want to work with the people who build things right, the first time. At Inspry, we build tailored website code according to leading best practices, whether in WordPress or Shopify, and our processes include reviewing every project for usability, quality, and extensibility. 

Quality Assurance (QA) First

Our QA starts from the very beginning of a project, because detecting defects or code bugs at an early stage of your project helps avoid expensive fixes later. 

We run a testing process on a project’s functional and design elements throughout the web development process. Our process includes performing QA tests on popular browsers and devices, examining functionality and performance details with cross-browsing testing.

Decades of Code Quality Control

For over a decade, we’ve been building web solutions and refining our QA methodology.

When our web developers create solutions with custom functionality, we build the solution using proper hooks, template overrides, and API integrations to ensure that we are “future proofing” our solution as much as possible. We work to ensure any code updates in your future don’t impact the custom solutions that we’ve built.

Here’s an overview of our process.

Individual Self-Check

QA starts with the individual web developer. We schedule projects with built-in time for our developers to take a break and step away from the code. Our developers use their years of experience to clean, fix, and clarify the code for self-QA.

Peer Review

Our team works under the same goal: produce the best possible solution by writing the best possible code. We rely on one another to review code before it goes through a final evaluation including formal peer reviews.

Internal QA Site Review

After self and peer reviews, a project manager examines the project with a fresh pair of eyes to catch any issues or bugs before we send the website off for your review.

Client Review

You will have a chance to do your own review of your website in our staging environment before it goes live. It is critical that you and your team take proper time and energy to QA the site.

Pre-Launch and Post-Launch QA

After client review, our developers complete a final QA before your desired launch date to ensure there aren’t any hiccups for the site in its final web hosting environment. After launch, we complete another QA round to ensure that every element of your application is operating as expected. 

Frequently Asked Questions

We follow the official WordPress Coding Standards for PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Every piece of custom code goes through linting and peer review before it reaches your site. For WooCommerce projects we also follow WooCommerce-specific hooks and data-handling conventions to avoid conflicts during updates. For Shopify projects we adhere to Shopify theme and app development best practices, including Liquid templating standards, the Shopify CLI workflow, and platform API guidelines.

Every change is built and tested on a staging environment first. We run functional testing, cross-browser checks, and mobile responsiveness verification before pushing anything to production. For WooCommerce sites we also test checkout flows, payment gateways, and cart behavior with real test transactions. For Shopify stores we validate theme changes, app integrations, and checkout behavior across environments before deploying to the live store.

Yes. All custom theme and plugin code lives in Git repositories. Version control gives us a full history of every change, makes rollbacks straightforward, and lets multiple developers work on a project without overwriting each other’s work.

We maintain a staging copy of your site and run updates there first if the updates are complex. For Shopify stores, we test theme updates and app changes on a preview theme before publishing to the live storefront. If a conflict appears we diagnose the root cause, apply a fix or find a compatible alternative, and only then push the update to production. Critical security patches are applied immediately with extra monitoring in the hours that follow.

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