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diff between smoke testing and sanity testing..

Answer / rajendra prasad reddy penumall

Dear Sujatha
smoke testing and sanity testings are not same in real.
ofcourse some companies may treat both are same but you
cannot give this answer in intervew.

to avoid Unnecessary confusion,you must know the root from
where these words are originated.

here the word Smoke testing is barrowed from electronics
testing industry.
In electronic manufacturing process after designing the
circuit they will put it for testing.
if there is any fault or miswiring or Miscontacts are there
in circuit then smoke comes out from the circuit.

This testing is called a Smoke testing.
In software industry after build is released from
development team it will be installed in the test server or
testers PC.
Initial test will be conducted to to check the Build
stability by checking the software properly working without
any hangings .
The software navigation controls must work smoothly.
so this can be called Build verification Testing or in a a
short form BVT.
If you come for Sanity testing,This is also called tester
Acceptence testing.
This is to determine, Whether the supplied build is
testable or not,
So Smoke Test -Build Verification Test(BVT)
Sanity Test -Tester Acceptence Test(TAT)
these are the very first tests conducted by the testing
team.
Also called as level -zero tests in STLC.

If you still have any doubt feel free to mail me at :
rajendra_penumalli@yahoo.com
or call me:9885162742

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diff between smoke testing and sanity testing..

Answer / samsirsameer

Smoke Testing:
Also called as BVT 'Build Verification Testing'
Done every time a new build is received to verify whether
the basic functionlaity is working fine or not.
Example, page navigations, all tabs, entities creation,
updations, deletions.
Usually done by Automation engineers whenever a new build
is recieved.

Sanity Testing: Testing major functionalities of the system
to ensure whether we can proceed further testing with the
build.
Example: We encountered a showstopper bug (blocking major
part of the application under test) and it was fixed and
given to QA. The QA will do a sanity test around that fix.

Thanks, SamsirSameer

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Answer / chandra sekhar

Smoke Testing...testing the basic features of application
are present with out any failure based on screenshot/FS
document.

Sanity Testing:Testing...Basic functionalities..(check
box..list box...buttons...etc.) are working or not...in an
application.

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Answer / vinodh anandhan

Smoke Test is scripted wheras Sanity Test is unscripted.
Smoke Test is shallow and wide coving all arears but not in
depth.
Sanity Test is Narrow and deep. To check the particular
module is working fine after changes (Form of regression
Tesing)
Smoke test is like build verification test
Sanity test is to check application functioning acc to
requirement.

Vinodh Anandhan
Software Tester
Exceed Technologies (P) Ltd.,
Chennai - 87
vinodh.anandhan@exceedintl.com

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diff between smoke testing and sanity testing..

Answer / chaithanya abk

thats a very gud answer Mr.Rajendra Prasad Reddy .. A good
explanation indeed , appriciate ur effort ..

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Answer / rahul

I dont understand why rajendra is always not satified with
the answers of sujata....agreed that she doest gives to the
point answer ..but you should encourage her man

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diff between smoke testing and sanity testing..

Answer / vishal

Sanity Testing:

Sanity testing is initial level of testing efforts to
determine if a new version of build is performing well
enough and accepted it for further testing activity..

Smoke Testing:

Smoke testig is initial build acceptance test. Here we
atest the major functionalities of the build, if the some
test is passed then it will goes for further testing
activity...

Vishal
Quality Analyst

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diff between smoke testing and sanity testing..

Answer / aravind

santity testing: after release the build to testing department
what ever doing test engg is called sanity testing..

smoke testing: in fiew companies before going to release the
build to testing depa the develpoer checks where build is
correct or not is called smoke testing

make me if am wrong

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Answer / naveen.a

hii rajendra prssad reddy,

I think the aswer wat u have posted regarding smoke and
sanity testing is good.But if we go in depth,both the tests
are same.You will test the build(i mean for smoke testing)by
checking the functionalities only na...which is same as the
answer u gave for sanity testing.....

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Answer / kvk2016

Smoke Testing: As soon as we receive build, to check whether build is executable are not, where to check major functionalities are working are not in order to check wheather we go for further testing are not

Sanity testing: performing testing on major and minor functionalities of the application are working fine are not

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