Smoke and Sanity

Question

Smoke and Sanity

Accepted Answer

Smoke testing is a quick test to check if the basic functionalities of the software are working. Sanity testing is a more thorough test to check if the major functionalities are working after changes have been made.

Smoke testing is done to check if the software can be further tested.
Sanity testing is done to check if the changes made have not affected the major functionalities.
Smoke testing is a subset of regression testing.
Sanity testing is a subset of acceptance testing.
Example of smoke testing: checking if the login page is working.
Example of sanity testing: checking if the payment gateway is working after changes have been made.

Accepted Answer

Smoke Testing is Performed to ascertain that the Critical Functionalities of the Program are Working Fine or not

and Entire System as to be test end to end

Sanity testing is done at Random to verify that each Functionality is working as expected

Smoke and Sanity

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