what is the diffrence b/w Sanity testing and smoke testing

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what is the diffrence b/w Sanity testing and smoke testing..

Answer / guest

Sanity Testing: In a application, take up a functionality
and get into deeper roots of the same. Testing a single
functionality covering its impact on the whole application
is termed as Sanity Testing.Its generally a subset of
regression testing and a group of test cases are executed
that are related with the changes made to the application.

Smoke Testing: Testing the build and check for the minor or
major smoke(nonfunctional)coming out, is termed as Smoke
Testing.Smoke testing can be done for testing the stability
of any interim build.

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what is the diffrence b/w Sanity testing and smoke testing..

Answer / rohan jadhav

Sanity testing - Testing to determine if a new software
version is performing well enough to accept it for a major
testing effort. If application is crashing for initial use
then system is not stable enough for further testing and
build or application is assigned to fix.

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what is the diffrence b/w Sanity testing and smoke testing..

Answer / sushma reddy

Smoke testing:It is initial testing process exercised to check whether the software under test ready for further testing.Check the main functionality but not in deep.It helps to find issues in the early phase of testing.

Sanity Testing:After receiving software build with the minor issues fixes in code, sanity testing is carry out to check weather the bugs reported in previous build are fixed.(check most related area)

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what is the diffrence b/w Sanity testing and smoke testing..

Answer / selvi

Both of these are more or less the same. Checking the
basic functionalities of the build after deploying the code
is called smoke or sanity testing.

Hope im rite.

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