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Test Web and Dialog activities
Test Web and Dialog activities on a testing server to ensure they produce the right result before moving the activities to the production server.
- Test Web activities
By testing Web activities using the store preview, you can ensure that the marketing information displays correctly in the right e-Marketing Spot. If the Web activity contains targets, you can ensure that the marketing information displays only to the target customers. When the testing is successful, you can deploy the Web activity to the production environment.
- Test Dialog activities
By testing Dialog activities in a test environment, you can ensure that the triggers and actions in the activity flow are producing the result you expect. If the Dialog activity contains targets, you can ensure that the actions reach the target customers. When the testing is successful, you can deploy the Dialog activity to the production environment.
- Tips for testing targets in Web and Dialog activities
When you are testing a Web or Dialog activity that contains targets, run through the activity as a target customer. For a Web activity, this means viewing the e-Marketing Spot in the store preview as a target customer. For a Dialog activity, you can use the store preview to create a test customer that meets the target criteria.
- Tips for testing triggers and actions in Dialog activities
When you are testing a Dialog activity, you can trigger the activity in a test environment and verify whether the activity produces the right action for the target customer.
- Tips for testing the Display Top Browsed and Display Best Sellers actions in Web activities
To check whether these actions are working as expected in an e-Marketing Spot, you can force the daily processing of top-browsed or best-seller lists in a test environment. This reduces the waiting period during testing.
Related tasks
Use the Branch element in Web and Dialog activities
Activating or deactivating an activity
Browse for activities using lists and calendars
Changing the priority of a Web activity
View the Web activities scheduled for an e-Marketing Spot