What are smoke and sanity testing?

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Smoke testing is a quick and shallow test to check if the basic functionalities of the software are working. Sanity testing is a more in-depth test to check if the major functionalities are working as expected.

Smoke testing is done to ensure that the software is stable enough for further testing.
Sanity testing is done to ensure that the major functionalities of the software are working as expected.
Smoke testing is a subset of regression testing.
Sanity testing is a subset of acceptance testing.
Smoke testing is usually automated.
Sanity testing is usually manual.
Example of smoke testing: checking if the login page is working.
Example of sanity testing: checking if the payment gateway is working.

Accepted Answer

whenever we get a new build from developer we will verify the major functionality of the application working properly or not that is called smoke testing.

example:Check the login functionality.

What are smoke and sanity testing?

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