Smoke Tests

Purpose

Smoke tests provide a fast confidence check after build/deploy by exercising critical user-facing flows.

Scope

Current smoke scope includes: - Public page rendering. - Admin login path. - Search request path. - Rendering with navigation/footer settings enabled.

Current implementation

• Command: make smoke
• Execution: python manage.py test --tag smoke
• Test class: backend/blog/tests.py (SmokeTests)

Covered scenarios: - Blog index and blog detail return HTTP 200. - Admin login succeeds and dashboard is reachable. - Search returns an expected indexed page. - Navigation/footer settings do not break page rendering.

Code locations

• Smoke tests: backend/blog/tests.py
• Make target: Makefile

How to verify

• make build
• make smoke

Guidelines for adding smoke tests

• Keep tests deterministic and independent of external services.
• Cover only end-to-end critical paths.
• Prefer stable server-side assertions over brittle UI details.
• Tag tests with @tag("smoke").