Diff between stress and load testing with example?

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Diff between stress and load testing with example?..

Load testing we check for scalibility & performance of the
application in customer expected Environment and
configuration.

Stress we try to check the performance of the application
under unintended loads / peaks hours to see at which point
the application fails to support customer expected
performance

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Diff between stress and load testing with example?..

Answer / srinivas_anchoori

my answer is also same as above with a clear example.
suppose if we take ICICIBANK.COM Site.
load testing:In this we test for example it(ICICI) has 100
customers whether all of them can simultaneously can access
the appln or not.
STRESS:In this we test the maximum limit up to which we can
use the same existing version of appln.for ex upto 200
customers or 250 customers etc....

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Diff between stress and load testing with example?..

Answer / deepak

Stress testing:
This test is designed to test software at what limit will
fail. This test is carried out in environment/situation.

Load testing:
It is the capacity and resilience of a system on different
Hardware platform. This is done in normal environment/situation.

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