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what are the difference between sanity and smoke testing.

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Last Update: March 30, 2007 Asked by: mallikarjunarao

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Submitted by: Anirban Guin

Smoke testing is a testing in order to ensure that the product is ready for further major testing.
It ensures that the major functionlaties of the product is working properly and not bothering with the finner details.
On the other hand Sanity testing is a cursory testing i.e a quick testing procedure and is done whenever cursory testing is sufficient to prove that the all functionalities are working according to the specifications, means testing of overall functionalities.

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beniwalg

February 09, 2007 15:00:01

Sam_khan

Member Since: January 2007 Contribution: 11

RE: what are the difference between sanity and smoke t...

Sanity Testing is the brief test of major functional elements of a piece of software to determine if its basically operationalWhere asSmoke Testing is a quick-and-dirty test that the major functions of a piece of software work. It is used for 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

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February 11, 2007 11:21:29

nirmmal

Member Since: December 2005 Contribution: 33

RE: what are the difference between sanity and smoke t...

A smoke test is a series of test cases that are run prior to commencing with full-scale testing of an application. The idea is to test the high-level features of the application to ensure that the essential features work. If they do not work, there is no need to continue testing details of the application, so the testing team will refuse to do any additional testing until all smoke test cases pass. This puts pressure on the development team to ensure that the testing team does not waste valuable testing time with code that is not ready to be tested.Once smoke tests are implemented as part of your software development life cycle, you will see the overall quality of the product improve and the sensitivity to producing high quality software increased.

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February 14, 2007 05:36:38

Anirban Guin

RE: what are the difference between sanity and smoke t...

Smoke testing is a testing in order to ensure that the product is ready for further major testing.
It ensures that the major functionlaties of the product is working properly and not bothering with the finner details.
On the other hand Sanity testing is a cursory testing i.e a quick testing procedure and is done whenever cursory testing is sufficient to prove that the all functionalities are working according to the specifications, means testing of overall functionalities.

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February 16, 2007 03:36:29

ramesh

RE: what are the difference between sanity and smoke t...

After receiving the initial build from develpoment team we conduct sanity test ,to ensure whether build it stable for further testing or not.while in smoke we randomly pick some major functionality testcases and excute ,to ensure whether they are working correctly.

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March 30, 2007 15:20:22

umadhu04

Member Since: March 2007 Contribution: 6

RE: what are the difference between sanity and smoke t...

SmokeTesting: Randomly checking major functionality of the application.
SanityTesting:It is smilar to SmokeTesting, but we do organized way testing here.

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