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Smoke testing exercises basic functionality of a system, in order to provide some assurance that the system does not fail catastrophically.

Smoke testing exercises basic functionality of a system, in order to provide some assurance that the system does not fail catastrophically. The modern origin is that of a physical device running on electricity: switch it on, and ensure it does not start emitting smoke. Once smoke tests have passed, tests targeting specific functionality can be performed.

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What is a sanity test/check

What is it and why is it used/useful?
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What is a smoke testing and what will it do for me?

I thought I understood that a smoke server was used for continous integration to measure the performance and test coverage of a project. Is this basically correct? What does it mean to smoke-test a program? Does it simply mean to continously…
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What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?

What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing? When do will perform smoke testing and when do will perform sanity testing?
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Given When Then Testing - Do I NEED a "When"?

I am implementing some smoke tests to our website. I'm using a Given/When/Then format for existing automated acceptance tests/User stories. But now I want to do an initial smoke test of: Given I'm on the homepage Then I should see "Welcome To The…
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Why are "smoke tests" called "smoke tests"?

Possible Duplicate: What is a smoke testing and what will it do for me? Why are "smoke tests" called "smoke tests"? I don't get this at all. What does smoke have to do with it?
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What is the best way to smoke test a staging/production environment in Rails?

First, the setup... I am currently developing a Rails 3 application on Mac OS X using Ruby 1.8.7 MRI, running tests and local dev against a MySQL database. I have 3 "other" non-local environments that we use at my company for every application…
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Check If System Is Connected To Kafka

I need to write a smoke test in Java which validates whether the system is connected to kafka, Does anyone have any idea? I have found this post: How to check whether Kafka Server is running? But it's too complicated to do from a Java code and I…
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Are regression tests the entire test suite or a sample of tests?

I was taught that a regression test was a small (only enough to prove you didn't break anything with the introduction of a change or new modules) sample of the overall tests. However, this article by Ron Morrison and Grady Booch makes me think…
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Is it possible to deploy Visual Studio Coded UI Tests to Azure or EC2 as Test Agents?

I'm not that entirely familiar with the testing suite that comes with Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate) but I'm trying to find a means to produce something similar to Selenium Grid with the Coded UI Tests. I'd like to be able to deploy agents to Azure…
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RobotFramework Keyword variable not setting

I am creating a smoke test suite for a series of APIs using the RobotFramework and the RobotRequestsLibrary. This is my first time using the RobotFramework. In trying to clean up the code and make it more maintainable I decided to try using Keywords…
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Using tags ( Smoke, regression) with TestCafe

Using testcafe grep patterns would partially solve our problem of using tags but it would still display those tags on the spec report ...!!! Is there a way to include tags in the test/fixture names and use grep patterns but skip those tags to be…
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Smoke testing a .NET web application

I cannot believe I'm the first person to go through this thought process, so I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with it. Current situation: developers write a web site, operations deploy it. Once deployed, a developer Smoke Tests it, to make…
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Is the automated testing still referred to as smoke testing?

If not, is smoke testing still used?
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Automatically smoke test all webpages in application, after deployment

After I deploy a build to staging. I would like to have a system that smoke tests all our webpages looking for error http status codes (400,500). What is the easiest, fastest way to get a system like this into place. If I use selenium or WebAII it…
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How to do a smoke Test and Acceptance test in a Javascript Aplication?

I want to do a smoke test in order to test the connection between my web app and the server itself. Does Someone know how to do it? In addition I want to do an acceptance tests to test my whole application. Which tool do you recommend? My…
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