Right after a library catalog deploy, the release engineer needs a fast check that search, hold, and login still respond. What should run first?
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Short Explanation
Smoke tests are the quick "lights on" check after you open the library wing—search, holds, login. Save the multi-day catalog archaeology for later; first prove the critical paths answer.
Full Explanation
Smoke testing is a short, high-signal suite that confirms critical paths respond after a deploy before deeper testing or full traffic trust. Right after a library catalog deploy, the release engineer needs a fast check that search, hold, and login still respond—those are the citizen-facing “lights on” paths. A short smoke suite verifying those critical catalog paths post-deploy fits because it is fast enough to gate the release train and specific enough to catch catastrophic breakage immediately.
A multi-day soak test against every historical catalog record is endurance and data-coverage work; it is too slow as the first post-deploy gate and answers a different question than “do search, hold, and login answer right now.” A full accessibility audit of every library branch website is important compliance work, but it is not a rapid post-deploy health check of catalog APIs and login. A complete rewrite of the catalog schema before any check invents new risk instead of validating the build just shipped.
Exam caveat: smoke suites must stay small and stable—critical paths only—or they cease to be smoke and become slow gatekeepers teams bypass. Operational check: immediately after catalog deploy, run the smoke suite against search, hold, and login; treat any failure as a release blocker and roll back or hot-fix before expanding traffic.