| Smoke Testing | Sanity Testing |
| Used for check local critical functionalities of a software | Focus will be on a particular area or minor functionalities |
| Performed to check stability | Used to verify the rationality |
| Both manual and automation test cases can be used | Generally, sanity testing does not have test scripts or test cases |
| Usually performed before passing the build to testing team | Executed before UAT and regression |
| Carried over by developers | Performed by testers |
| Subset of acceptance testing | Subset of regression testing |
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