TFS and VSTS Quality Gate task for a simple web smoke test.
**For an Agent-based web smoke test task that will retry and hit multiple URLs (good for web farm scenarios), please see this task: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OneLuckiDev.release-web-smoke-test-task
Add to the server Quality Gate after a release to ensure that a web page is available prior to releasing to a later environment
Url the url to call. The address information should include the protocol desired (http:// or https://).
Simple task to test the availability of a web applicaiton or api after a deployment to verify that there is some expected response. This allows for a sanity check at the end of the release in to an environment to verify that what was deployed is actually functional.
Icon - Smoke Detector by Arthur Shlain from the Noun Project