What's the difference between Load and Stress testing ?

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What's the difference between Load and Stress testing ? ..

Answer / asan mohamed

Load testing
Testing the application with maximum number of users and
input.
Stress testing
Testing the application with more than the maximum number
of users and input.

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What's the difference between Load and Stress testing ? ..

Answer / kavita

Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system
or application to measuring its response.

Stress testing is process used to determine the stability of
a given system or application.Like testing beyond normal
operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to
observe the results.

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What's the difference between Load and Stress testing ? ..

Answer / sailaja

One of the most common, but unfortunate misuse of
terminology is treating "load testing" and "stress testing"
as synonymous. The consequence of this ignorant semantic
abuse is usually that the system is neither properly "load
tested" nor subjected to a meaningful stress test.

1. Stress testing is subjecting a system to an unreasonable
load while denying it the resources (e.g., RAM, disc, mips,
interrupts, etc.) needed to process that load. The idea is
to stress a system to the breaking point in order to find
bugs that will make that break potentially harmful. The
system is not expected to process the overload without
adequate resources, but to behave (e.g., fail) in a decent
manner (e.g., not corrupting or losing data). Bugs and
failure modes discovered under stress testing may or may
not be repaired depending on the application, the failure
mode, consequences, etc. The load (incoming transaction
stream) in stress testing is often deliberately distorted
so as to force the system into resource depletion.

2. Load testing is subjecting a system to a statistically
representative (usually) load. The two main reasons for
using such loads is in support of software reliability
testing and in performance testing. The term "load testing"
by itself is too vague and imprecise to warrant use. For
example, do you mean representative
load," "overload," "high load," etc. In performance
testing, load is varied from a minimum (zero) to the
maximum level the system can sustain without running out of
resources or having, transactions suffer (application-
specific) excessive delay.

3. A third use of the term is as a test whose objective is
to determine the maximum sustainable load the system can
handle. In this usage, "load testing" is merely testing at
the highest transaction arrival rate in performance testing

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What's the difference between Load and Stress testing ? ..

Answer / vijay anand

Load Testing:
Testing with maximun no. of users and systems

Stress Testing:
the application with more than the maximum number
of users and input.

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