Tools of Magento Web Development

Magento is a complex system and without proper tools, development for the system can get complex, especially

for beginners. In this article, we will examine some of most useful Magento development tools and extensions.

Magento Developer Toolbar Module

This free Magento extension helps developers to understand what is going

on in each request. It is capable of showing the layouts and blocks involved

in building content of pages, loaded models and collections, as well as

controller action and params. It also allows you to quickly clear cache,

toggle displaying block hints and so on. It has the ability to show profiler

output. Very useful for beginner and average level developers.

http://www.mgt-commerce.com/magento-developer-toolbar.html

Magento Debug

This is another Magento debugging toolbar based on the one for Django

framework. It has similar features to the Developer Toolbar, but has a

different look and feel to it. Up to developers to decide which suits them

better. https://github.com/madalinoprea/magneto-debug

Magento PHPUnit Testing

Code quality and scenarios are easy to test with this extension. Implementing a bridge

between Magento specifics and PHP Unit. It allows you to find configuration problems, errors

in rewrites and check if a module behaves properly with a set of incoming data.

http://www.ecomdev.org/shop/php-unit-test-suite.html

We hope this post will help you to get started with Magento web development.

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