Sometimes. In my experience they bifurcate into: - Smoke tests (does this page load at all) - More narrow tests (does this particular flow work) I think you'r

Sometimes. In my experience they bifurcate into: - Smoke tests (does this page load at all) - More narrow tests (does this particular flow work) I think you're referring to smoke tests, but you likely always want to run smoke tests. It's the narrow tests that you are safe with removing.