stressitest
Stressitest is a term used in software and systems engineering to describe the practice of stress testing, that is, deliberately pushing a system beyond its normal operational capacity to observe how it behaves under extreme conditions. The goal is to reveal robustness limits, identify breaking points, evaluate error handling, and inform capacity planning and risk mitigation. It differs from routine performance tests by focusing on boundary conditions and failure modes.
Applications span software applications, databases, networks, and hardware platforms, including web servers, distributed systems, embedded devices,
Common approaches include spike testing, where load is rapidly increased; load testing, where a sustained heavy
Process usually starts with objectives and acceptance criteria, followed by building a representative load model and
Historically, stress testing originated in reliability engineering and adopted in software testing to assess how systems