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What is Smoke Testing? When to use it and advantages of Smoke Testing

Smoke testing is explicitly helping many teams in ensuring that the critical and major functionalities of the application are working before it is released for end-users. This method is a functional testing type and also known as the Build verification process. By including smoke testing into the software testing lifecycle (STLC), developers and testers experience several benefits such as saving time and effort, improvement in the effectiveness, etc. Thus, it is essential for the teams to have a clear understanding of smoke testing. For any software project, the main objective is to deliver a quality and high-performing application at a faster speed with cost savings. Thus, to achieve this, there is a huge need for the teams to perform software testing, make sure that the application is defect-free and all major functionalities are working fine before its release. One of such testing methodology that effectively helps is Smoke testing. Yes, smoke testing is one type of functional test