Why are "smoke tests" called "smoke tests"?

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user128807 picture user128807 · Dec 21, 2010 · Viewed 13.9k times · Source

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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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martin clayton picture martin clayton · Dec 21, 2010

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The term originates in hardware repair and has been applied to software. It's intended to be a quick test to see if the application "catches on fire" when run for the first time. As stated above it's just to make sure you don't waste a bunch of folks time by setting them loose on something that's obviously broken.

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