Modern web development and DevOps is all about the shift towards continuous deployment. But balancing increased development and feature releases with stability becomes a challenge. Integrating rapid and proactive testing can help make more deployments with confidence. In this session we look at the benefits of setting up smoke testing suites and get hands on creating automated tests. * Development vs stability * Smoke Testing - what, when and how * Use Cases and scenarios: Availability, Navigation, Functionality, Performance * Test types * End to End automated solutions (Synthetics): Ping, Simple Browser, Scripted Browser, API Test * Labs: create a range of tests for a complete smoke testing suite * SLA’s and Reporting on your tests No prior knowledge necessary Prerequisites for the practical exercises: New Relic account (free): http://nru.to/new