staging-validation-phase

Staging validation is a pre-production process that runs smoke tests, manual flows, data migration checks, and rollback verification to ensure production readiness and reduce deployment risk before shipping.

Validate data migrations in staging by running deterministic checks within a staging-prod workflow, verifying that migration scripts execute correctly and produce the expected state.yaml updates before proceeding to production.

Yes, rollback verification is automated during staging deployment by executing deterministic steps that test the rollback path, ensuring the environment can safely revert if the production release fails.

Yes, staging validation requires direct access to the staging environment to execute smoke tests, verify critical user flows, perform data migration checks, and confirm rollback procedures.

The best way to generate a validation report is to run an automated staging validation workflow that executes smoke tests and rollback checks, outputting a detailed report and updating state.yaml for traceability.

A staging validation workflow should cover automated smoke tests, manual critical user flows, data migration verification, and rollback testing to confidently guide the decision before executing /ship-prod.