Smoke Testing

Purpose

Validate that the most critical functionality of an application works after a deployment, build, or environment change. Smoke tests provide fast, reliable feedback that the system is stable enough for further testing or production release. This skill covers smoke suite design, CI/CD gate integration, rollback automation, and environment-specific strategies.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

User mentions smoke test, BVT, build verification, deployment health check, canary test, sanity check, or asks "is the build stable?"

Input Context

• Deployment target (staging, production, canary)
• Changes included in the build
• Critical user journeys for the application
• Health endpoint specifications
• CI/CD pipeline stage and rollback capabilities