Staging Validation Phase: Standard Operating Procedure

Training Guide: Validate staging deployment before promoting to production.

Phase Overview

Purpose: Manual testing on staging, smoke tests, sign-off Inputs: Staging deployment Outputs: Validation report, sign-off decision Expected duration: 30-60 minutes

Execution Steps

1. Run smoke tests on staging
2. Test critical user flows
3. Verify data migrations
4. Check rollback capability
5. Sign-off decision (approve/reject)

Common Mistakes

• Validation steps skipped
• Smoke tests insufficient
• Sign-off unclear

Completion Criteria

• Smoke tests pass
• Critical flows verified
• Sign-off documented

This SOP guides staging validation.