Wednesday, March 23, 2016

What do you mean by Soak Testing?

- Soak testing is a type of testing where the system is tested over a significant period of time by applying significant load to system to check how the system behaves.

- Soak testing is also called as endurance testing.

- Soak testing is a type of performance testing.

- Soak testing is a non functionality testing.

- Soak testing is carried out to check the memory leaks in the system.

Ex: A system may perform well on calculating the tax of n person in an hour. If calculating the tax of n number of person in 24 hours along with the checking of balancing sheet of bank would result in checking of the endurance of the system or performing soak testing.