Your deployment process, first and foremost, needs to be as similar as possible between environments so that a deployment to test, tests your deployment along with the code itself. Good continuous delivery tools (my company provides one ) will help with that and tie those phases together nice in a build lifecycle or build pipeline.
You might want to check out the built in support for continuous integration and continuous delivery for Azure that came out recently.
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