Smoke
What it is
Single-page health check on a running app. 'Does the dashboard render at all?'
When to use it
Quick boot-time sanity check; runs on every deploy.
Example gates
Future slice — pairs naturally with e2e.
See also
- The pyramid — where this mode sits relative to the others
- Writing a gate — how to scaffold a new gate in this mode
- Decision tree — "I just wrote feature X — what tests do I owe?"