What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?

Answer Posted / deepthy

Smoke Testing is performed to ascertain that the critical functionalities of the program is working fine
This testing is performed by the developers or testers
Smoke testing is usually documented or scripted

Sanity Testing is done to check the new functionality / bugs have been fixed
Sanity testing is usually performed by testers
Sanity testing is usually not documented and is unscripted

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