Approach to conduct Stress Test - By Kirk Pepperdine

During Performance testing, stress test has its own place to find out the uppercut of application capability. But what is the correct approach you should follow to conduct Stress and then how to conclude the result? Kirk Pepperdine has articulated these stuff very well in his article.

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Stress Test: The main idea behind stress testing is to determine the future load handling capacity of a system. A stress test is a type of performance test where we load the software with a number of concurrent users/processes more than the normal user load. It puts greater emphasis on robustness, availability, and error handling under a heavy load, rather than on what would be considered correct behaviour under normal circumstances.