Stress Testing

What is Stress Testing?

Stress testing pushes the application beyond its normal operational capacity to identify its breaking point and how gracefully it fails or recovers.

Key Aspects Verified

• The application's behaviour when resources are exhausted (CPU, memory, bandwidth).
• Whether the system fails gracefully or crashes catastrophically under extreme load.
• How well the system recovers once the stress condition is removed.

Load vs Stress Testing

Load testing verifies performance under expected conditions, while stress testing deliberately exceeds those conditions to find the system's limits.