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Test Autogenerated emails

 
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There is a system in place where autogenerated emails are sent to designated users to notify them of certain timelines or events.
(For example, an email is sent when 2 days are left to return my books in library.)
My job is to test, if the emails are being sent at the desired times and events or not and if this email generation system is working fine or not?

I am overwhelmed to see the amount of emails generated at a particular point of time at the time of testing with test data at UAT.
Dont know how should I proceed to test this and submit the test report.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 
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I'm not sure what exactly you're asking. Are you saying the test data is so plentiful that the email account is flooded with mails? If so, I'd set up the test data differently, maybe so that only a handful of emails go to account A (where you can check each mail), and everything else to account B (where you can just look at the number of emails).

If you're asking something else, please elaborate further.
 
Antraa Sethi
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Hi,

As I understand, they is a DB table from where the email ids are fetched to send emails.
I am not allowed to delete any records or edit the DB.
I am just to test the functionality.

I dont know...I am clueless.
 
Ulf Dittmer
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Then you need to explain this problem to whoever says you're not allowed to fix it yourself, and together you need to come up with a solution.
 
Antraa Sethi
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May be Yes.
Thank you for replying.
 
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