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title: "What is meant by bucket testing?"  
description: "What is meant by bucket testing?"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2011-03-22  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/568/what-is-meant-by-bucket-testing  
category: "testing"  
tags: ["testing"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What is meant by bucket testing?

**Bucket testing** is also called as **variable testing or A-B testing** .

Buckets are our implementation of smart objects. A bucket is a storage unit that contains data. The bucket design goals are: aggregation intelligence self-sufficiency mobility heterogeneity and archive independence and metadata as well as the methods for accessing both.buckets contain 0 or more *packages.P*ackages contain 0 or more *elements.*Actual data objects are stored as elements and elements are grouped together in packages within a bucket.Testing this actual data objects which are stores as elements and number of elements that are grouped together in packages that are within a bucket is known as bucket testing.

## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

**Bucket testing** is also called as **variable testing or A-B testing** .

Buckets are our implementation of smart objects. A bucket is a storage unit that contains data. The bucket design goals are: aggregation intelligence self-sufficiency mobility heterogeneity and archive independence and metadata as well as the methods for accessing both.buckets contain 0 or more *packages.P*ackages contain 0 or more *elements.*Actual data objects are stored as elements and elements are grouped together in packages within a bucket.Testing this actual data objects which are stores as elements and number of elements that are grouped together in packages that are within a bucket is known as bucket testing.


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