what is diff between stress testing and spike testing

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what is diff between stress testing and spike testing..

Answer / pallavi g

Stress Testing is a testing process in which an application
is tested beyond the anticipated/expected load
condition.This is done in order to know the extreme level
till which an application be loaded i.e to find the
breakpoint.
Spike Testing is a testing process in which an application
is tested sudden increment and decrement in the load.The
system is suddenly loaded and unloaded.It is done to see
how the system reacts with unexpected rise and fall of
users.

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what is diff between stress testing and spike testing..

Answer / mfsi_chinmayb`

Hi

Stress testing creates an environment where the application
is supposed to breakdown .

Spike Testing : The scenario where immediately a huge
number of users comes to the application . Its like the
spike graph

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what is diff between stress testing and spike testing..

Answer / rekha

spike testing: if the same type of operations performed on
the application how many members can access the application.

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what is diff between stress testing and spike testing..

Answer / satyaprasad

Stress testing means test the application more than
customer expected load (Generally according to standards
comp should test the application with customer expected
load + 5% of the customer expected load)
Spike testing is also called Datavolume testing ,in this
they test the application with load in shortime to estimate
the weekness of the application

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