Smoke testing

Smoke testing procedure

• Smoke tests should be performed on the following environments:
  1. Local development machine(s)
  2. Development nodes
  3. Production nodes
• Test the code for valid behaviour
• Try to break the code by giving bad inputs etc.
• Report any problems discovered against the original issue and alert the other developers

Areas to test

It is assumed that environments have been setup with the release branch, ready for both developers and participating users to test. Note that General must be carried out first for all smoke testing categories.

1. General

2. Database

3. Queues

4. WebApp

5. Monitors