What is the difference b/w Smoke and Sanity Testing? I heard
that Sanity testing will be done by developers. Is that so?
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Answer / sonia
SMOKE Testing - When a tester get build from the Dev,
tester perform the initial testing to ensure that the basic
functionality is working fine or not. If not then further
detail testing is not proceeded. This initial testing
before the detail testing is known as SMOKE testing.
Sanity Testing - Once the all the test cycles have been
executed and all the open defects have been fixed and
retested, now before providing the signoff for next phase
testers needs to do Sanity testing to test some critical
functionality which will ensure that the defect fixes have
not disturb the other functionality. This test cycle is
short and quick and is known as Sanity testing.
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Answer / awin
Sanity Testing is used to check whether it is REASONABLE to
carry out further testing or not whereas Smoke testing
checks whether its POSSIBLE to carry out the testing.An
ideal sanity test exercises the smallest subset of the
application functions needed to determine whether the
application logic is functional & correct whereas in smoke
testing the tester touches all areas of application without
going deep. eg. interest calculation of a financial
application is sanity testing.On the other hand tests like
can i open the page or is a button on the page working
properly are examples of Smoke testing.
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Answer / sneha
Hi,
This is sneha.
No it is done only by the testers not developers
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Answer / murali
Both are same but in some companies before releasing the
build the developers will check whether the build is proper
or not is known as smoke testing after releasing the build
the testers will once again check whether the build is
proper or not is known as sanity testing.
But Both are same.
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Answer / murali
sanity testing means checking whether the released build is
working properly or not.
Here we will check the following
1. whether the build is installing into the
environment or not.
2.whether we can navigate through all the
pages of the application or not.
3. whether all the features are available or not
4.whether the established
connections(database connections) are properly working or
not.
actually smoke testing and sanity
testingare same.
in some companies before releasing the build the developers
will check whether the build is proper or not is known as
smoke testing and once the build is released once again the
testers will check the build is proper or not is known as
sanity testing.
actually smoke testing is done in electronics industries
when they develop any circuits they will conduct smoke
testing to check is there any short circuit in the circuit
after performing this only they will do detail testing.
so some companies use tat terminology in software also
dont confuse both sanity and smoke testing are same........
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Answer / chabs
In some companies they term it as Smoke testing, in some
companies they call it as Sanity testing. In a company only,
they may call it as Sanity testing for one project, Smoke
testing for the other.
SO BOTH R SAME.
They are done at every stage... developers do it (just do a
high level check whether the feature works? that there is no
critical bug). Testers do Smoke testing immediately after
they get the build from the developers.(For every build
testers does Smoke testing...do a high level check later
proceed testing the application in detail)
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Answer / ruby
smoke testing: After getting every build we r doing smoke
testing. smoke testing test the basic functionality of the
application. if smoke test fails no need to do further
testing .As a tester we should reject that build and send to
the dev
Sanity Testing: It check the healthiness of the
application.In this testing we check wether the build is
working properly or not.No issue should be left
Both are done by tester
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Answer / kishore
There is no difference between Smoke and Sanity testing,
both testing will be done when we will get a new build and
to test whether further it is testable or not.
But the only difference is in sanity testing first we need
to test whether last build test cases are working fine or
not, bcs when we get new build some time it should not
support the last build test cases.
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Answer / s.mahender reddy
JUST BEFORE THE RELEASE OF BUILT THE DEVELOPERS WILL CONDUCT
OVERALL TESTING INORDER TO CHECK WHEATER THE BUILD IS PROPER
FOR DETAILED TESTING OR NOT THAT IS KNOW AS SMOKE TESTING
ONCE BUILD IS RELEASED ONCE AGAIN THE TESTER WILL CONDUCT
OVERALL TESTING IN ORDER TO CHECK WEATHER THE BUILD IS
PROPER FOR FURTHER DETAILED TESTING OR NOT.THIS IS CALLED
SANITARY TESTING.
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Answer / ayush
Both are same in a way.
But you guys are not understanding where the name Smoke and
Sanity comes from. Smoke means presuming something to be
false as something is burning or going wrong. Whereas the
Sanity means assuming that everything should work fine.
As I posted earlier only the perception is different.
Refer to Wikipedia links for further information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanity_testing
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