{"id":1048,"date":"2016-12-20T06:33:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/services\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:54:53","slug":"big-data-functional-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/services\/big-data-functional-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Functional Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since big data deals with huge chunks of data, there are high chances of having bad data and data quality issues at each stage of the process. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/services\/native-app-functional-testing\/\">Functional Testing<\/a> should be performed at each of the four phases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/insights\/big-data\/\">Big data<\/a> processing to ensure no errors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Flow validation <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Data Acquisition based on business use cases and Validating data movement across different layers.<\/li>\n<li>Testing the Data Aggregation and Data filtering mechanisms.<\/li>\n<li>End-to-End Data validation and transformation logic based on business rules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data Integrity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Validate for Data completeness with referential integrity checks, Data constraints and duplication <em>checks<\/em> along with error conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Testing boundaries to identify schema limitations for each layer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data Ingestion Layer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Ability to connect with different data models and replay the data through messaging systems, Monitor Data loss.<\/li>\n<li>Fault Tolerance, Continuous availability and connection to different data streams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data Processing Layer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Business Rules validation <em>&amp; <\/em>Validating Map-Reduce process.<\/li>\n<li>Data Integrity, Data Transformation, Data Aggregation and Consolidation<\/li>\n<li>Data Processing Performance &amp; Exception Handling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data Storage Layer<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Read &amp; Write Timeouts, Continuous Availability, Load balancing and Query Performance Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reports Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disk\">\n<li>Validation for Measures &amp; Dimensions, Real-time Custom Reporting, Drill up \/ down mechanisms, Business reports &amp; Charts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since big data deals with huge chunks of data, there are high chances of having bad data and data quality issues at each stage of the process. 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