Stress Testing / Endurance testing

What is Stress Testing ?
Also called Endurance testing .
The execution of our software build under customer expected configuration and various load levels to estimate stability or continuity is called Stress testing .
Check how the system can behave under extreme such as insufficient memory , inadequate hardware etc.

It is performed to find the upper limit capacity of the system and also to determine how the system performs if the current load goes well above the expected maximum.

• It is a type of non-functional testing.
• It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results.
• It is a form of software testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system.
• It  put  greater emphasis on robustness, availability, and error handling under a heavy load, rather than on what would be considered correct behavior under normal circumstances.
• The goals of such tests may be to ensure the software does not crash in conditions of insufficient computational resources (such as memory or disk space).