Why Smoke Testing Is Critical Before Every Software Release (opens in new tab)

Modern software teams deploy updates faster than ever before. With Agile development, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines becoming standard, applications are constantly changing through new features, bug fixes, infrastructure updates, and API modifications. But with faster deployment cycles comes a bigger risk: unstable builds reaching users. Imagine releasing a new update to an eCommerce application only to discover customers cannot complete payments. Or deploying a SaaS feature update whe...