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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • May 12, 2021

Proactive monitoring and smoke testing in your production environment

Liam Hurrel

Are your unit tests missing critical production failures? Learn how automated smoke testing and synthetic monitoring catch broken workflows before your users ever notice.

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#1 about 8 min

Introduction to proactive monitoring and workshop overview

Accessing the initial lab environment properly grounds participants to explore real-time observability principles.

#2 about 6 min

Defining smoke testing for production system environments

Running rapid end-to-end verifications validates core application functionality entirely over traditional full regression cycles.

#3 about 4 min

Optimal timing for continuous smoke test execution

Executing test coverage directly after staging deployments aggressively isolates latent application regressions early.

#4 about 6 min

Test automation strategies and essential workflow use cases

Simulating fundamental interface functions like cart checkouts validates application integrity while uncovering third-party dependency failures.

#5 about 5 min

Utilizing synthetic monitors for automated scheduled testing

Adopting cloud-hosted automation environments allows predictable scheduling metrics for targeted site latency measurements.

#6 about 12 min

Configuring ping checks and simple browser load monitors

Programming recurrent ping checks effectively audits web resolution speeds directly from distributed geographical global network nodes.

#7 about 15 min

Scripting API tests for backend component endpoint verification

Writing customized node scripts triggers asynchronous network requests to explicitly validate backend system response codes.

#8 about 10 min

Developing scripted browser automated site navigation routines

Connecting promise-based interactions directly maps complex procedural sequences ensuring standard page loading resolves correctly.

#9 about 15 min

Generating browser automated scripts utilizing test recording environments

Extending browser extensions to auto-generate underlying validation sequences dramatically accelerates custom user journey simulations.

#10 about 8 min

Visualizing test stability using service level agreement dashboards

Integrating data aggregation queries isolates infrastructure defects rapidly providing broad team transparency regarding failure rates.

#11 about 3 min

Configuring failure alerts and automated workflow integration channels

Building specified incident routing securely transmits outage logs to primary messaging interfaces immediately during disruption events.

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