Smoke Testing
What is Smoke Testing?
Smoke testing is the initial testing process exercised to check whether the software
under test is ready/stable for further testing.
The term ‘Smoke Testing’ is came from the hardware testing, in the hardware testing
initial pass is done to check if it did not catch the fire or smoked in the initial switch
on.Prior to start
Smoke testing
few test cases need to created once to use for smoke
testing. These test cases are executed prior to start actual testing to
checkcritical functionalities of the program is working fine. This set of test cases written
such a way that all functionality is verified but not in deep. The objective is not to
perform exhaustive testing, the tester need check the navigation’s & adding simple
things, tester needs to ask simple questions “Can tester able to access software
application?”, “Does user navigates from one window to other?”, “Check that the GUI is
responsive” etc.
Here are graphical representation of Smoke testing & Sanity testing in software testing:
