What is the difference between Smoke Test & Sanity Test?

Answer Posted / ravinder mehra

Smoke testing- This term came from Electronic Industry
where if ther is a shor circuit then is should produce the
smoke.
Sanity testing- This is the min no of test case that needs
to be executed before moving to the next level of testing.
Ex- If you are not able to login even after entering the
correct id/passwd that means the sanity test fails

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