Advantages of Soak Testing
- Improves the performance: It makes bottlenecks detectable and optimizable, which eventually improves performance as a whole.
- Increases the Resistance: It evaluates how flexible and resistant to failure the system is under ongoing stress. This can highlight weak areas and vulnerabilities that might not be visible during shorter testing times.
- Working under heavy load: Soak testing helps to ensure a dependable user experience by making sure the system can withstand such loads without degrading.
- Improves the behavior: It offers views into the system’s behavior over time, particularly under high loads.
Soak Testing – Software Testing
Soak Testing is a type of software testing in which a system is tested under a huge load over a continuous availability period to check the behavior of the system under production use.
Soak Testing tests that the system can withstand a huge volume of load for an extended period.
This testing is performed at the system level to find whether the system will stand up to a very high volume of usage or not. It also tests that what would happen outside the design expectations of the system.