What is Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing?

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Sanity testing and Smoke testing are types of software testing performed to check the basic functionality of the application.

Smoke testing is a type of testing that checks whether the critical functionalities of the application are working fine or not.
Sanity testing is a type of testing that checks whether the bugs reported earlier have been fixed or not.
Smoke testing is performed after the build is received from the development team, whereas sanity testing is performed after the build is stabilized.
Smoke testing is a subset of regression testing, whereas sanity testing is a subset of acceptance testing.
Examples of smoke testing include checking if the application is launching properly, if the login page is working, etc. Examples of sanity testing include checking if the bug reported earlier has been fixed or not, if the new feature added is working fine or not, etc.

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