Prem Phulara had commented on my earlier post, What knowledge do you need to have in order to do good or best performance testing asking me to explain stress testing.
This post is dedicated to Prem. In this post, we will discuss stress testing.
Stress testing is a special type of performance testing. It is used to stress (or in other words, put a high load on) the system to determine its highest operational capacity. Stress tests establish the highest load that the system is able to withstand while still being operational (and not throwing too many errors). The additional benefit of stress testing is that it exposes the resources that run out the fastest when the load on the system approaches its maximum sustainable value. It is common to design a series of load tests with increasing loads to find out the maximum sustainable load.
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