As the deployment pipeline is going through each stage and subsequently passes through each stage, it is good to check that the respective stage is functioning correctly. The tests you do for the associated stage can be thought of as smoke tests. For example, checking that a website is up and running by accessing the URL, and checking that a record in a database can still be fetched.
Testing the environment configuration
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