posted by on Oct 23
In the IT industry it is not uncommon to hear someone talk about running a stress test on something. While a medical stress test is intended to check for abnormalities in the human heart an IT related stress test is something totally different. The two types of stress testing that you might hear discussed are software stress testing and CPU stress testing. Software stress testing is simply the tests that check a program for its ability to function under a heavy load. This includes it error handling, availability and anything that might be considered out of the norm for that program. A CPU stress test is slightly different.
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