Smoke Tests

It is imperative in any testing suite that we have Smoke Tests. In short, smoke tests run quick end-to-end functional tests from GitLab QA and are designed to run against the specified environment to ensure that basic functionality is working.

Our suite consists of this basic functionality coverage:

• User standard authentication
• SSH Key creation and addition to a user
• Project simple creation
• Project creation with Auto-DevOps enabled
• Issue creation
• Issue user mentions
• Merge Request creation
• Snippet creation

Smoke tests have the :smoke RSpec metadata.

Health check suite

This is a very small subset smoke tests with the :health_check RSpec metadata. Its function is to monitor the status and health of the application.

See End-to-end Testing for more details about end-to-end tests.

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