Benefits of Smoke Testing

 



Following are the three key benefits of smoke testing:

1. Troubleshooting bugs at a faster pace: Troubleshooting activities can be carried out effectively by the development team during the smoke testing process. Root cause analysis can be performed efficiently. Smoke test suites provide high coverage. The quality of the application can be viewed as a sketch-mapping exercise by the smoke test suite.

If the build is viable enough, then the QA team can gain more efficiency as partial regression testing can be conducted on that build, while smoke test bugs are fixed by the developers. Once the smoke test bugs are fixed, the QA team can then focus on fixing bugs found in partial regression testing.

2. QA teams can scale up their productivity: If a larger test suite is being run because of which time and effort are being wasted by the QA team, the platform of smoke testing can be used to discover the issues and solve them accordingly. 

Instead of wasting resources, if the testing scenario is best for conducting smoke testing, then the teams can go for it. When higher-viability builds are passed through the smoke test suite, then the confidence of QA teams increases, which, in turn, helps them perform better.

3. Bugs can be easily detected in the early stages itself: It has been observed that when the smoke testing suite is configured and executed, around 80% of the bugs are uncovered and fixed. 20% or less of all test cases are covered by teams performing smoke testing, but, what’s astonishing is that around 80% (approximately) of the bugs are uncovered. 

This ensures that smoke testing activity is a worthwhile effort that can save time and effort to a considerable extent.  

A few more important benefits of smoke testing are as follows:

·         Those issues that have been introduced by the integration of components are found by the smoke testing method

·         Issues that have been fixed in the previous build are verified and also ensuring that the functionalities of the application are not impacted.

 


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