What is smoke testing & when to perform smoke testing?

The objective of software testing is to optimize the software quality and also make sure that the bugs are eliminated and the defects/issues have been resolved. Various levels of testing are performed by the testing team before finalizing changes and churning out a high-quality product. Smoke testing is one of the preferred software testing types that can detect bugs in the early stages of the software development process. In this article, you will get to know about smoke testing along with the right context to perform smoke testing.

What is Smoke testing? It is a testing method that verifies whether the deployed software build is stable or not. The most crucial functions of the program are worked upon and determined by non-exhaustive software analysis without delving deep into the deeper and finer details. Before the critical testing is implemented, the crucial and basic issues of an application are tested. After a build has been completed successfully, the preliminary check of the software is done by smoke testing. It is considered to be the most cost-effective method for identifying and fixing defects in software application.QA team gets the necessary confirmation through the smoke testing method in order to further proceed with the next level of testing. It is also known as “Build Verification Testing.”

The right context to perform smoke testing: Smoke testing is performed whenever software’s new functionalities are developed and integrated with the existing build that will in turn be deployed in the staging/QA environment. It makes sure that all the crucial functionalities are working as expected or not. The build in QA is deployed to the development team. The test cases on the build are run by testers by taking the subsets of test cases. The application will be tested by the QA team against the crucial functionalities. Designing these series of test cases is done for the purpose of exposing errors that are in the build. If the tests pass, then the QA team will continue with functional testing. If there is any indication of failure, then the system or application should be handed back to the development team. Whenever the build goes through any changes, smoke testing is performed to make sure that the build is stable.

The right team/professionals responsible to conduct smoke testing: When the build is released to the QA environment, smoke testing is performed by the QA lead/QA engineers. If there is a new build, then the QA team will ascertain the application’s major functionalities to perform smoke testing. Showstoppers are checked in the application that is under testing by the QA team. The code is being tested in a development environment to make sure the application’s correctness before the build is released to the QA, and this process is known as sanity testing.

The Strategic need to perform smoke testing: Smoke testing ensures the correctness of the system or application. Test efforts can be saved to a great extent. The system is bought into a good state by the smoke testing method.

Following are a few key points that depict the need to perform smoke testing: • Identifying all the showstoppers in the build is possible • The process of detecting and correcting errors is simplified • The major defects are found out the implementation of smoke testing • Defects in the application functionality that may have been identified at the surface of the new code are found by the QA team • After the build is released, smoke testing is performed. Identification of defects takes place at the early stages of the software development process.

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