Work & Development · Backend & Full Stack Development

Testing, Deployment and Maintenance

Test a small site, publish it and practice fixing a release that goes wrong.

Level: Intermediate
Lessons: 9 lessons in 3 modules
Estimated study: About 10 hours
Format: Online, self-paced

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Before you start

Recommended preparation:

Use a computer with a keyboard and a current browser. Individual lessons explain the tools needed for each exercise.

Full study requires active Academy access. This course can be audited independently of optional assessed programs.

About this course

After JavaScript Foundations and Git and GitHub for Your Projects, learn to check a site before sharing it. In about 10 hours, test a function, a page and a real browser journey. Run checks with GitHub Actions, publish to GitHub Pages and practice restoring a working release after a bad change.

What you will be able to do

Choose checks that verify important user behavior and failure cases.
Deploy a project with environment-specific configuration.
Use safe logs, a release checklist and a recovery plan to maintain the application.

Course outline

Choose useful checks for one function, a connected page and a journey in a real browser.

Set up the project and test the rules that matter1 h 15 minFree preview
Test page behavior with Vitest and Testing Library1 h
Test a user journey in a real browser with Playwright1 h 15 min

Make setup repeatable, run checks on each main-branch push and publish the checked files.

Make setup reproducible and run tests on every push1 h 15 min
Check the files you deliver45 min
Deploy to GitHub Pages and smoke-check the live site1 h 15 min

Record useful failures without private data, undo a bad release and write a clear handover.

Read useful logs without collecting private payloads45 min
Roll back a bad release and prevent a repeat1 h
Hand over a tested, deployed project1 h 30 min

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