As a TM administrator I should be confident that currently deployed/about to be deployed version is usable such that it does not break any current user stories

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We need tests that run on fully deployed version of the app, i.e. into an 'Pre-Prod' environment that is just like the final 'Prod' setup.

There are a couple tests can only be executed against this type of set-up. It also represents the last change to detect any issues:

scalability and performance tests on the 'real thing'
confirm 'production' configuration and set-up
spider the side and confirm that all links are as expected
run long/heavier tests which are not very practical to be included in the normal QA/Dev tests
regression tests for bugs found by users (to make sure they are fixed)

Note that I expect a lot of reuse between the other web automation tests that we use on a more day-to-day basic

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