Is Stress Testing a negative testing? - Explained

[Jerry Ruban]

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:

Hello ,

> Infotekie wrote:
> Is Stress Testing a negative testing? In what all possible test methods
> 'negative testing' exist?

   Stress testing and negative testing are 2 different kinds of
testing! you cannot relate them!!

Best Regards,
Vivekanandan M