In computing, stress testing (sometimes called torture testing) can be applied to either hardware or software. It is used to determine the maximum capability of a computer system and is often used for purposes such as scaling for production use and ensuring reliability and stability. Stress tests typically involve running a large amount of resource-intensive processes until the system either crashes or nearly does
Hardware
Software
See also
- Burn-in
- Destructive testing
- Load and performance test tools
- Black box testing
- Load testing
- Software performance testing
- Scenario analysis
- Simulation
- Software testing
- White box testing
- Technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV) – product testing and certification
- Concurrency testing using the CHESS model checker
- Jinx automates stress testing by automatically exploring unlikely execution scenarios.
- Highly accelerated life test