[chatmasta]

I know you're asking about pre-deploy, but for post-deployment, you might want to check out Bash Automated Testing System (BATS) [0].

[0] https://github.com/sstephenson/bats

[JeffRosenberg]

As a fellow user of that project, FYI it has been migrated to https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core