Difference of Sanitary (Sanity Testing) from Smoke Testing types of testing

Sanitary or Sanity Testing

Refers to the type of software testing that is used to prove the operability of a particular function or module in accordance with the stated technical requirements. Often, sanitary testing is used to verify any part of a program or application as a result of changes made to it by environmental factors. Its execution usually occurs in manual mode.

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Smoke Testing

It is considered as a short cycle of tests that are performed in order to confirm the fact of launching and performing the functions of the installed application after building new or edited code. 

The test results of the most important segments of the application should provide objective information about the presence or absence of defects in their work. Based on the results of smoke testing of the application, it is either sent for subsequent full testing, or it is concluded that it needs to be finalized.

Quite often, in an amateur environment of software developers, one can come across allegations that these types of testing are analogs. 

In our opinion, such statements are unfounded, since sanitary testing is focused on the in-depth study of a certain function, and smoke testing - on testing a large amount of functional testing services in the shortest possible time.