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ALSO CALLED: Stress Testing DEFINITION: Stress testing is the process of determining the ability of a computer, network, program or device to maintain a certain level of effectiveness under unfavorable conditions. The process can involve quantitative tests done in a lab, such as measuring the frequency of errors or system crashes. The term also refers to qualitative evaluation of factors such as availability or resistance to denial-of-service … Definition continues below.
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Mobile load: Performance testing for mobile applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Mobility presents a new set of challenges for your dev and testing teams - ensuring consistent quality is much more difficult when you've got several devices to consider. Check out this resource to learn about the particular testing challenges that come with mobile apps, and how mobile testing really differs from traditional performance testing. Posted: 21 May 2013 \| Published: 21 May 2013 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Load Testing \| Mobile Device Management \| Performance Testing \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Load factor: performance testing for Web applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover best practices for load and performance testing of today's high-performance Web and mobile applications. Posted: 07 Nov 2012 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Web Applications Management

Testing and Quality Management - Best Practices sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the best practices for testing and configuration that Aberdeen's best-in-class designated organizations used to reduce operating costs by 26% and improve process efficiencies by 41% so you can adopt them to create a streamlined, stable IT environment for your business. Posted: 07 May 2012 \| Published: 28 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Security \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Modeling \| Integration Testing \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Testing \| Testing

Load Testing 2.0 for Web 2.0: Simplifying performance validation for Rich Internet Applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Before Ajax or other RIA technologies can be ready for prime time in your business, you need to verify that they can deliver enterprise-scale performance that won't lag or crash under peak loads. Read this white paper to learn best practices for load testing that will help you make sure that they're ready. Posted: 06 Apr 2012 \| Published: 28 Feb 2010 TOPICS: .NET \| AJAX \| Functional Testing \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Testing \| Web 2.0 \| Web Applications Management \| Web Development Tools

High Availability and Load Balancing sponsored by Progress Software WHITE PAPER: This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing. Posted: 28 Nov 2011 \| Published: 31 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Data Integration \| High Availability \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing

Best Practices for Load Testing: Do Try This At Home sponsored by Neustar® WHITE PAPER: This white paper breaks load testing down into the following key activities: planning, configuration, scripting, execution, and analysis. Posted: 14 Oct 2011 \| Published: 12 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Load Testing \| Software Maintenance \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing \| Testing

Advanced ADCs Take Over Where Server Load Balancers Leave Off sponsored by Coyote Point Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this whitepaper and learn what to look for when evaluating an application delivery solution. Get the tools you need to develop a successful virtualization strategy while improving your data center to obtain your business objectives. Posted: 19 Jul 2011 \| Published: 19 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Hosting \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Integration \| Data Center Management \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing

Optimizing Capacity and Efficiency in a Diverse and Variable Load Environment sponsored by Tate WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains the need for local and dynamic airflow delivery technology and illustrates how these technologies work together with existing IT cooling systems to meet this variable load demand while maintaining high reliability and lowering energy costs. Posted: 13 Dec 2010 \| Published: 13 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Load Testing

Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| Load Testing \| Oracle (Product) \| Performance Testing \| SOA \| Systems Testing

Load Testing 2.0 - The Next Generation of Load Testing for the Web 2.0 World sponsored by Gomez WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn why Load Testing 2.0 solutions are needed and who benefits. Learn best practices to get business value out of advanced load testing features, the limits of load testing 1.0 solutions, how today's approach complements existing 1.0 solutions, and what factors are important for selecting successful Load Testing 2.0 solutions. Posted: 09 Jul 2009 \| Published: 09 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Cloud Computing \| Content Delivery \| Load Testing \| Software as a Service \| Software Quality Assurance \| Web 2.0 \| Web Applications Management

Best Practices for Provisioning Databases for Test and Development sponsored by Informatica WHITE PAPER: Best practices and new technologies available for provisioning databases for test and development environments are outlined in this white paper. Using this as a guide, organizations can save time and resources, meet regulatory compliance standards, and streamline database provisioning processes for test and development environments. Posted: 01 Apr 2009 \| Published: 16 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Banking Industry \| CRM \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Databases \| ERP \| Financial Services Industry \| Health Care Industry \| Human Resources Management \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing \| Regulatory Compliance \| Retail Trade Industry \| Storage Best Practices \| Telecommunications Industry \| Testing

Understanding the Network Impact on Application Load Testing sponsored by Shunra Software WHITE PAPER: Delivering an application without considering the target network is not sufficient for load testing. Read this white paper that details a new solution for testing to make sure that application performance is optimal across the board. Posted: 22 Oct 2007 \| Published: 22 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Fault Tolerance \| LAN \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing \| Network Performance \| QOS \| WAN

Load Testing for Web 2.0: Simplifying Performance Validation for Rich Internet Applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: While rich next generation applications promise a radically improved customer experience, they also have the potential to overwhelm your servers. This paper examines a set of sophisticated tools for load testing your new high -powered apps. Posted: 14 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: AJAX \| Application Deployment \| Application Performance Management \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Web Applications Management

The Scalability Revolution: From Dead End to Open Road sponsored by GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how applications can improve performance and achieve linear scalability by switching from a tier-based model to space-based architecture (SBA). Posted: 06 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Client-Server Architectures \| Grid Computing \| Load Testing \| Operating Systems \| SOA \| Software Migration

What You Should Expect from Load Testing Web Applications sponsored by Quotium Technologies WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the necessary steps to collect and leverage Web application test data and ensure an entire Web environments' ability to sustain concurrent users and transactions. Posted: 23 Feb 2007 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: Application Performance Management Software \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing \| Web Development

Load Testing: Mitigating Risk before Go-live sponsored by Mercury WHITE PAPER: The role of enterprise software is to facilitate and optimize business processes. Testing of new, upgraded, and newly integrated software applications, before they go live, is one proven way to mitigate the risk. Posted: 16 Nov 2006 \| Published: 01 Nov 2006 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Performance Management \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| SOA \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Testing

Cisco Wide Area Applications Services (WAAS) Report sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can accelerate a range of business applications, including Microsoft Exchange, file sharing and web applications. Posted: 16 Oct 2006 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Benchmark Testing \| Data Centers \| Load Testing \| Microsoft Exchange \| Network Performance \| Network Performance Management Software \| Performance Testing \| WAN

Integrating Load Testing with Development Analysis sponsored by Compuware Corporation WHITE PAPER: Ensuring user responsiveness in distributed enterprise applications doesn't have to be difficult. Learn how to provide information needed to diagnose and fix performance issues by combining solutions for load testing and performance analysis. Posted: 15 Aug 2006 \| Published: 01 Jan 2005 TOPICS: Application Performance Management Software \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Choosing a Load Testing Strategy sponsored by Borland Software Corporation WHITE PAPER: Compromising performance testing means applications are prone to failure, users cannot trust them, and developers and IT spend their time chasing problems rather than building the next generation application. Posted: 24 May 2006 \| Published: 01 Apr 2006 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Development and Integration Services \| Application Integration \| Business Metrics \| Business Performance Management \| Integration Testing \| IT Best Practices \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing \| Network Analyzer Hardware \| ROI \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Methodologies \| Web Analytics

How to Successfully Automate the Functional Testing Process sponsored by Borland Software Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides practical insight into the lessons learned by those who have successfully automated the functional testing process. Posted: 24 May 2006 \| Published: 01 May 2006 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Debugging \| Integration Testing \| IT Best Practices \| Load Testing \| Network Analyzer Software \| Network Testing \| Penetration Testing \| ROI \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Quality Assurance

Mercury Customer Perspective: How to Automate Testing - without Aggravating Testers sponsored by Mercury WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives practical advice, based on the experiences and lessons learned by Michael Anthony of Iron Mountain, about how to integrate automation into testing processes - without alienating your testing team. Posted: 06 Mar 2006 \| Published: 01 Jan 2005 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Process Automation \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Mercury Customer Perspective: Mercury LoadRunner - Tips and Tricks for Configuration, Scripting, and Execution sponsored by Mercury WHITE PAPER: This guide provides tips and tricks for Mercury LoadRunner® configuration, scripting, and execution. Learn best practices from experienced Mercury LoadRunner users. Posted: 06 Mar 2006 \| Published: 01 Jan 2005 TOPICS: Application Performance Management Software \| Best Practices \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Scripting \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Application Performance Lifecycle Management: Reduce Time, Effort, and Cost in Pre-production, Production sponsored by Mercury WHITE PAPER: Application performance problems continue to occur, despite the strides companies have made with performance testing and tuning technologies. Posted: 20 Dec 2005 \| Published: 01 Dec 2005 TOPICS: Application Development and Integration Services \| Application Life-Cycle Management Software \| Application Performance Management Software \| Best Practices \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| Financial Services Industry \| Load Testing \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

Rapid Bottleneck Identification™: A Better Way to Load Test sponsored by Empirix WHITE PAPER: RBI can have a dramatic impact on the productivity of your testing team, and on the quality of your applications. Posted: 20 Sep 2005 \| Published: 01 Sep 2005 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Load Testing \| Performance Testing \| Software Testing \| Web Applications Management

Load Testing to Predict Web Performance sponsored by Mercury WHITE PAPER: The paper discusses the importance of maintaining a Web application to ensure customer satisfaction and why load testing is critical to successfully launching and managing Web sites. Posted: 24 Mar 2003 \| Published: 01 Jan 2000 TOPICS: Application Performance Management Software \| Diagnostic and Test Software \| eBusiness Software \| Load Testing \| Software Testing \| Web Applications Management

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LOAD TESTING DEFINITION (continued): … (DoS) attacks. Stress testing is often done in conjunction with the more general process of performance testing.When conducting a stress test, an adverse environment is deliberately created and maintained. Actions involved may include: Running several resource-intensive applications in a single computer at the same time Attempting to hack into a computer and use it as a zombie to spread spam Flooding a server with useless e-mail messagesMaking numerous, concurrent attempts to access a single Web site Attempting to infect a system with viruses, Trojans, spyware or other malware.The adverse …
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