

The threshold of acceptable performance degradation must be defined by the testers as some value considered acceptable to the end user so that users will not bounce from the site.Ī stress test is a test designed to increase the number of simultaneous requests on a system past a point where performance is degraded, even to the point of complete failure. The goal of a load test is to prove that a system can handle the expected volume with minimal to acceptable performance degradation. A load test ensures that a web system can handle an expected volume of traffic, and therefore is sometimes referred to as volume testing.

Stress TestingĪ load test is a planned test to perform a specified number of requests to a system to test the functionality of the system under specific levels of simultaneous requests.
