Is stress testing like load testing?
The stress tests I referred to are not like the load testing you’re thinking of. The performance and load testing you’re thinking of is done for QuickPlace by the Product Introduction Engineering team. My stress scripts perform limits testing like how many pages can be added or how many columns can be displayed in a folder view. How is testing used to set the criteria for a beta candidate? How do you determine that you’ve got a build that is stable enough to start giving it to customers? As I mentioned earlier, there are several ways that we determine a build to be of ship quality. Things like automated regression results, test database metrics, SPR metrics, performance statistics, and MTBF. With a beta build, the same sorts of metrics are used, but the bar is a little lower. For me, the first indicator of quality and stability is the smoke test results. After that, it is the regression suite and how well it runs. What is the point at which you stop accepting daily builds to prepare fo
