What is Soak Testing?

• It is a part of performance-testing.

• It comes under non-functional-testing.

• It is also called capacity testing,logevity,endurance testing.

• It helps to analyze the performance of system under a significant load for an extended period.

• It helps to identify and optimize possible problems, like memory leakage, resource leakage also to avoid slowdown of system performance.

• It helps to identify issues related to memory allocation and database resource utilization.

• It is used to make sure that the system is reliable and stable.

• It is used to validate software behavior under heavy loads for a continuous long time.

• It is better to perform after load testing for best result.

• It is done at the system level.

Tools for Spike Testing:

1. JMeter

2. WebLoad

3. Load Runner

Advantages of Soak Testing:

1. It give assurances for application fitness.

2. It improves the performance and behavior of the system.

Disadvantages of Soak Testing:

1. If the same system work nonstop then it may fail or behave abnormally and it may cause of crash.

2. it requires a lot of time to execute application.