Integrating Smoke Tests into your Continuous Delivery Pipeline

This post details how to integrate smoke tests into a Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to surface deployment failures early. It explains the use of functional and automated UI smoke tests, demonstrating how to configure the Visual Studio Test task to run tests using various frameworks (MSTest, NUnit, xUnit, Mocha, Jasmine) and technologies like Selenium. It highlights the need for private agents in interactive mode for UI tests or using phantomjs for hosted agents. The post also touches on configuring smoke tests for mobile continuous delivery scenarios using Xamarin.UITests in Xamarin Test Cloud.