hooldustest
Hooldustest is a coined term used in reliability engineering to denote a testing protocol that assesses how well a system maintains reliability and performance during maintenance activities such as software updates, patching, and configuration changes. It is discussed primarily in reliability and software maintenance discourse as a way to measure resilience to operational changes.
Origin and usage: The term blends maintenance-related language with testing terminology and tends to appear in
Methodology: A hooldustest typically starts with a defined baseline of system performance, then applies maintenance actions
Applications: It is used to compare maintenance strategies, validate update processes, and study how downtime, rollbacks,
Limitations: The term is not widely standardized, and results can be highly dependent on the test environment
See also resilience testing, regression testing, software maintenance, reliability engineering.