Building Microservices with Go

Smoke tests

Smoke testing the application post deployment is an essential step in continuous delivery. We need to ensure that the application is functioning correctly and that nothing has gone wrong in the build and deployment steps. In our example, we are simply checking that we can reach the health endpoint. However, a smoke test can be as simple or as complex as required. Many organizations run more detail checks, which confirm that the core integration to the deployed system is correct and functioning. The smoke tests are conducted as either a codified test reusing many of the steps in the GoDog integration tests, or a specialized test. In our example, we are simply checking the health endpoint for the search service:

- run: name: Smoke ...