Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Catch broken flows before customers do
Why a free, no-signup browser smoke test beats hoping staging equals production.
Most “it worked on my machine” bugs are flow bugs: a button that never navigates, a form that submits into an empty state, a redirect that only fails on mobile. Waiting for a customer to open a support ticket is the expensive way to find them.
ShipCheck’s free browser smoke test opens a real Chromium session, walks a few pages, fills safe forms, and returns a step report with screenshots. No signup, no SDK, no CI project to babysit for a quick check.
Pair that with careful visual diffs when the risk is layout, not just navigation. Use smoke for “does it work?” and pixels for “does it still look right?”
Upcoming deep-dives cover running Playwright on Vercel Hobby and safe form filling— those go live on our Tue/Thu schedule.