Several years ago, around the time I started teaching Rapid Software Testing, my co-author James Bach recorded a video to demonstrate rapid stress testing. In this case, the approach involved throwing an overwhelming amount of data at an application’s wizard, essentially getting the application to stress itself out.
The video goes on for almost six minutes. About halfway through, James asks, “You might be asking why I don’t stop now. The reason is that we’re seeing a steadily worsening pattern of failure. We could stop now, but we might see something even worse if we keep going.” And so the test does keep going.
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