What is the focus of Volume Testing?

Volume Testing primarily focuses on assessing how a system performs under a substantial volume of data. Its objective is to evaluate the system's behavior when it processes large datasets and to ensure that it can handle the volume without any degradation in performance, such as slow response times or crashes.

By conducting volume testing, organizations can identify potential bottlenecks, memory leaks, and other issues that may arise from large data sizes. This is crucial for applications that will store or manipulate significant amounts of data, ensuring their efficiency and reliability.

The other aspects mentioned, such as monitoring behavior with normal user numbers or assessing performance under high user loads, while important testing practices, relate more to different types of performance testing. Likewise, testing for network failures deals with resilience and reliability testing. Hence, volume testing’s unique focus on data management is what makes it a critical process in the development and deployment of data-heavy applications.