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What is Volume Testing?

Volume testing is a type of non functional testing where software is subjected to large volume of data to analyse the performance of the system. It is also called as Flood testing. With this type of testing the impact of response time and system behavior can be determined.

The objective of volume testing is

It is used to check whether there is any loss of data

Used to check the response time

Data is stored correctly or not

Verify if the data is overwritten

Check all the warning messages and error messages

Check the high volume data has some effect on speed processing of the system

The challenges of volume testing are:

It is difficult to generate fragmentation of memory

Difficult for dynamic generation of keys.

Relational integrity of generated data

For example: If a volume test has to be done for the application with a specific database size we will expand the database application to that size then test the performance of it. Another example is if there is a requirement of an application to interact with the interface file which is reading or writing from file or to file. The database is stretched to the maximum threshold point and large volume of data is added and tested for system’s response.

The main characteristics of volume testing is

In development phase, small amount of data is tested

The performance of the software decreases over the time if there is enormous amount of data

Test cases are derived from design of documents

Test data is generated from a test data generator

Test data need not be logically correct to assess the system’s performance

The difference between the volume testing and load testing:

Volume testing is performed on the varying data volumes in database and load testing is performed with varying number of users.

The benefits of volume testing are

By identifying the load issues a lot of money can be saved for application maintenance

It helps for quicker start for scalability plans

Easy to identify problems

It confirms the usability of the system in real world

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