what is soak testing?

Soak Testing also called as Endurance Testing. Soak testing is running a system at high levels of load for prolonged periods of time to identify any performance problems that appear after a large number of transactions have been executed.

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Also, Endurance Testing checks for the failuresthat night come whil using the software, for example it checks for the memory leaks, processing speeds, communication channels, disk spaces etc on heavy loads.

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Nikhar

Soak testing involves testing a system with a significant load extended over a significant period of time, to discover how the system behaves under sustained use.

For example, a system may behave exactly as expected when tested for 1 hour. However, when it is tested for 3 hours, problems such as memory leaks cause the system to fail or behave randomly.

Soak tests are used primarily to check the reaction of a subject under test under a possible simulated environment for a given duration and for a given threshold. Observations made during the soak test are used to improve the characteristics of the subject under test further.