can any one tell whats the difference between smoke testing
and sanity testing

Answer Posted / salman

hi......
Smoke Testing is performed to that the critical
functionalities of the program is working fine Sanity
Testing is done to check the new functionality / bugs have
been fixed
The objective of this testing is to verify the "stability"
of the system in order to proceed with more rigorous
testing The objective of the testing is to verify the
"rationality" of the system in order to proceed with more
rigorous testing
This testing is performed by the developers or testers
Sanity testing is usually performed by testers
Smoke testing is usually documented or scripted Sanity
testing is usually not documented and is unscripted
Smoke testing is a subset of Regression testing Sanity
testing is a subset of Acceptance testing
Smoke testing exercises the entire system from end to end
Sanity testing exercises only the particular component of
the entire system
Smoke testing is like General Health Check Up Sanity
Testing is like specialized health check up

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