SmokeTests - Why you should try to burn down your production environment

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Argues for automated pre-activation checks that actually catch production regressions: a PHP smoke-test library (MIT) using PHPUnit and concurrent curl multi sends many requests concurrently (concurrency = CPU cores − 1), verifies status codes, time‑to‑first‑byte, body length and target server, and halts blue/green activation on failure. Implementation reaches ~25k pages per deployment in ~6 minutes, pushes for 100% code coverage, integrates with CI, and is explicitly built to prevent shipping missing or wrong pages rather than just promising examples.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:37Project Architecture
3. 7:57Legacy Pages
4. 8:50Types of Tests
5. 9:22What Are Unit Tests
6. 13:29Acceptance Tests
7. 18:40How the Smoke Tests Work
8. 22:49Concurrent Smoke Tests
9. 28:09Build Process
10. 29:19Smoke Tests Fail
11. 31:05Smoke Test Your Website

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