Explain Smoke testing and Sanity testing with examples.

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Smoke testing and Sanity testing are two types of software testing used 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 have been fixed or not after a new build is released.
Smoke testing is done to ensure that the application is stable enough for further testing.
Sanity testing is done to ensure that the major functionalities of the application are working fine after the bug fixes.
Example of Smoke testing: Checking whether the login page is working fine or not.
Example of Sanity testing: Checking whether the issue of the application crashing on a particular page has been fixed or not.

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