smoke-suite-gate

Overview

A smoke suite is the minimum end-to-end test set every deploy must pass, gating pre-merge, post-merge to main, post-deploy to staging, and post-deploy to canary. A smoke failure halts the release.

When to use

• The CI/CD pipeline lacks a fast deploy gate; full regression takes too long for per-deploy.
• A canary stage needs a precursor smoke test that's faster than the full canary observation.
• A new release process needs the "first-line defense" check.