Main difference between smoke and sanity testing?

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Smoke testing is a quick and shallow test to check basic functionality while sanity testing is a more thorough test to check major functionality.

Smoke testing is done to ensure that the critical functionalities of the software are working fine.
Sanity testing is done to ensure that the new changes or fixes in the software have not affected the existing functionalities.
Smoke testing is a subset of sanity testing.
Smoke testing is done before sanity testing.
Smoke testing is less time-consuming than sanity testing.
Example of smoke testing: checking if the login page is working.
Example of sanity testing: checking if the new feature added to the software is working fine without affecting the existing features.

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