Smoke Test - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A smoke test is a quick, shallow check that the most critical paths work at all, run first so an obviously broken build is rejected before the full suite spends time on it.
In CI
Teams often run a small smoke job early in a pipeline to fail fast, then gate the expensive full suite behind it.
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