Smoke testing in nothing but testing the application whether
all the major functionalities are available in order to do
thorough testing.
  nothing but checking whether build is stable or not..

Smoke Testing means testing the most important 
functionality of the software.

A quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece 
of software work. Originated in the hardware testing 
practice of turning on a new piece of hardware for the 
first time and considering it a success if it does not 
catch on fire. 

The exercise to carry out to check the Application Build is 
working fine and stable for the Extensive Testing @ the 
Tester's End. Basically the testing is done by the 
Developers before the Build delivered to QA team.

smoke testing is testing whether the newsoftware or build 
is ready for major testing or not.

smoke testing is to check wether the buld is stabel or un 
stabel

1. Checking for the basic functinality or basic features of 
the project once we receive the build is called Smoke 
Testing.
2. If any of the basic functionality is failed, then we 
dont continue with testing. we simply reject the build. It 
means we will check whether the build is stable or not.
3. Here we will select some of the functionality test cases 
and these test cases are called smoke test cases. All these 
test cases should be passed.

Hi,


 In Smoke testing we are mainly focus on the major 
functionalities.. if the major functionalities are not 
working ( that means build is not stable) then we are going 
to stop the testing.


Regards,
Satya.k

Smoke Testing...Testing the major functionality is working
or not between two builds.

Pratap..

Smoke Testing:
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--> Testing done to ensure that the product is testable.
--> Smoke test is a collection of written tests that are 
performed on a system prior to being accepted for further 
testing.
--> This is also known as build verification test.

Smoke Testing is used for whether the Bulid is Stable or not
if it is not ready for testing we will immediatly stop the 
testing and sent back to the Developement dept