Hai,

Load Testing and Performance Testing are commonly said as positive testing
where as Stress Testing is said to be as negative testing.
Say for example there is a application which can handle 25 simultaneous user
logins at a time. In load testing we will test the application for 25 users
and check how application is working in this stage, in performance testing
we will concentrate on the time taken to perform the operation. Where as in
stress testing we will test with more users than 25 and the test will
continue to any number and we will check where the application is cracking.

Check out this site for more testing faqs,

http://softwaretestingguide.blogspot.com/

Regards,

Jerry.
On 1/17/07, Vivekanandan M <viv...@sankhya.com> wrote: