smoke test
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word smoke test. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word smoke test, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say smoke test in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word smoke test you have here. The definition of the word smoke test will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofsmoke test, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Noun
smoke test (plural smoke tests)
- A test for leaks involving blowing smoke into a tube or pipe.
- A preliminary test on a newly-constructed piece of electronic equipment, consisting simply of the application of electrical power, to make sure that no egregious wiring errors exist which would cause the circuitry to emit smoke, catch fire, explode, etc.
- (by extension) Such an initial test on some other (not necessarily electronic) system, such as a computer program, again, not to perform any exhaustive tests of functionality, but simply to make sure that the system will not catastrophically fail on activation.
- A test to make sure that theatrical smoke will not set off the smoke alarms in a building.
Verb
smoke test (third-person singular simple present smoke tests, present participle smoke testing, simple past and past participle smoke tested)
- (transitive) To perform any of the above tests.
See also
Further reading
smoke testing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
