Smoke Testing: What It Is, and Why Manual Gates Slow You Down, Why Manual Gates Don’t Scale (opens in new tab)

Smoke testing is a software testing method used to verify the basic functionality of a new build before committing to further testing. You can think of it as a quick pass/fail check to check certain core functionalities. Does the application launch? Do critical features respond? Are the core workflows intact? If a build fails a smoke test, there's no point running deeper regression testing or functional testing against it. Smoke testing is sometimes called build verification testing, and it's...