stressitestid

Stressitestid is a term used in software testing to refer to a unique identifier assigned to individual stress test executions. It is intended to improve traceability and reproducibility of performance results under high load conditions.

The term is formed from stress test and ID; there is no universally accepted standard definition. In practice, teams adopt a naming scheme or a dedicated field or tag in test management systems. Stressitestid helps link run logs, metrics, and artifacts to a specific test run.

Within continuous integration pipelines, stressitestid is generated at test start and propagated to results dashboards, log collectors, and time-series databases. It enables filtering and comparison across environments, code versions, and workload profiles.

A typical stressitestid includes a unique alphanumeric string, a timestamp, environment identifier, test type, and maybe a version or build number. It should be stable across the entire run and associated artifacts. Use centralized generation to avoid collisions; ensure privacy and security considerations if identifiers encode sensitive data.

Benefits include improved traceability, easier incident analysis, and reproducibility. Limitations include potential overhead, reliance on consistent adoption across teams, and risk of mislabeling if the id is not attached to all artifacts.

Related concepts include stress testing, performance testing, test management, and observability.