A successful smart contract deployment is not the same as a production-ready application.
Before release, I would want the team to demonstrate five things:
Network identity. Confirm the expected chain ID, deployment address, contract bytecode, and configuration.
Reproducibility. Show that another developer can repeat the deployment and verification process in a controlled environment.
Failure handling. Test RPC timeouts, failed transactions, delayed confirmations, and unavailable external services.
Access control. Verify privileged operations, key management, permission boundaries, and recovery procedures.
Data integrity. Document how off-chain information is collected, validated, and connected to on-chain records.
These checks do not guarantee security. They make important assumptions visible and create a starting point for independent testing.
A useful technical write-up should include the environment, test procedure, expected result, observed result, and known limitations.
Which of these checks has revealed the most unexpected problems in your projects?
