What is sanity testing?

Sanity testing

Sanity testing is that type of testing in which after first time reporting of bugs and fixing it, before starting regression testing all the software is sane or got through an overview of all the functionality whether there are some ripple effects or not.

What is the sequence of test execution?

first sanity /smoke testing

First of all smoke testing is done when release is handed over to Testing Team, when bugs reported are fixed and then sanity testing is done.

High risk/priority feature

After some testing or sanity testing high risk and high priority test is executed.