Quality Assurance & Testing
Release Readiness
Validate release readiness with evidence-based go/no-go decisions. Covers go/no-go checklists, smoke test suite design, staged rollout validation, rollback criteria and procedures, and post-deployment verification. Ensures release confidence comes from data, not feelings. Use when: "release ready," "go/no-go," "smoke test," "release checklist," "rollback plan," "staged rollout," "canary deploy." Not for: safe-release techniques (flags, canary, dark launch) applied during the rollout itself — use testing-in-production; scheduled probes that run continuously after release — use synthetic-monitoring; designing new tests from prod telemetry — use observability-driven-testing. Related: testing-in-production, qa-metrics, ci-cd-integration, ai-system-testing.
- Publisher / source
- petrkindlmann/qa-skills (found on skills.sh)
- Upstream record
- petrkindlmann/qa-skills
- Version
- Version 3
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication · recorded passed scan 2026-11-03
- Content fingerprint
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