Testing Programming Environment Readiness, Prerequisites

Though it "should go without saying", software environments are complex.

Programming environments have a myriad of installation and configuration options, releases, updates, etc. each of which can introduce bugs and potential failures.

In the spirit of aviation's pre-flight checks, TDD and BDD, and following the use of software installation prerequisite checks:

1) Should (or do) software developers have some standardized tests they can or do run to check that their new, latest, and or current environment is (still) ready for successful software development?

Obviously, each language and platform and development environment is going to be different when it comes to how and what to test, but. . .

2) If you are already doing this type of testing, what do you do?

3) Can you point us at repos or tools, or checklists, that one might use to do this sort of coding "pre-flight" or "post-install, post-upgrade" check?

p.s. - I'm looking for tests/checks that go beyond "does my app (still) compile?"

Thanks.