Volume Testing

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Volume Testing
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INTRODUCTION

• Volume testing is also known as flood testing and
  it is a type of performance testing. Volume
  Testing is non-functional testing thats used to
  test the performance and behavior of the system
  or application under a large amount of data.
• Under Volume Testing the database is pushed to
  its limit point by adding a large amount of data
  to it and then the system is tested for its
  response. Volume testing can help users to know
  how capable the system is for the real world and
  it also helps to save lots of your money which
  can later be spent on maintenance purpose

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Main Objectives of Volume Testing

1. Volume testing provides developers and project
   holders enough information that can be used to
   know how much data the system can process without
   fail. Having knowledge of the capacity of the
   system makes scalability planning a bit easy and
   also helps in creating contingency plans.
2. The second objective of software volume testing
   is to detect the issues that only show when the
   data load is increased like higher response time,
   system failure or crash, or security exploits.
3. Volume testing is important as it helps the
   company to ensure that the software performance
   will not be disrupted and the system response
   time keeps to be high regardless of the amount of
   data users share through software.

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1. Volume testing also helps the project team ensure
   that no data is lost due to the increase in the
   size of the database and the pressure on the
   system.
2. By analyzing Volume Testing results QA
   professionals will be able to find the warning
   signs of downtimes, system failure, and crashes.
   In real-world conditions, a business can manage
   data loads proactively, increasing the amount of
   disc space or expanding the database as soon as
   the amount of data nears the established limits.
3. Volume testing helps businesses to understand if
   increasing the size or the speed of existing
   infrastructure components or adding more
   components to support the system is a suitable
   strategy.
4. Volume testing determines the systems
   performance under both low and medium loads to
   make sure that it works as it should and no
   performance issues are there. Under high data
   loads, the risk of data loss or overwriting is
   very high so volume testing helps to ensure that
   the system is not at risk of overflow or data
   security issues.

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The things that need to be tested

1. Check if there is any data loss due to an
   increase in data.
2. Check the systems response time.
3. Check if the data is stored and saved correctly
   in the database or not.
4. Check if the data is replaced without any
   notification or not.
5. Check for any warning and error messages that
   come at all for any volume problems.

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The things that need to be tested

1. Check if the high volume of data affects the
   speed of processing.
2. Does the system have the necessary memory
   resources?
3. Does the volume test execute on the whole system?
4. Check for any risk if the data volume is greater
   than specified limits.
5. Is there any check or guarantee that ensures that
   no larger data volume will occur than specified
   limits?

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