Software QA/Testing
Glossary and Technical FAQs
Glossary and Technical FAQs
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Q: What is the difference between volume testing and load testing?
A: Load testing is a blanket term that is used in many different ways across the professional software testing community. The term, load testing, is often used synonymously with stress testing, performance testing, reliability testing, and volume testing. Load testing generally stops short of stress testing. During stress testing, the load is so great that errors are the expected results, though there is gray area in between stress testing and load testing. Q: What is incremental testing? A: Incremental testing is partial testing of an incomplete product. The goal of incremental testing is to provide an early feedback to software developers. Q: What is software testing? A: Software testing is a process that identifies the correctness, completeness, and quality of software. Actually, testing cannot establish the correctness of software. It can find defects, but cannot prove there are no defects. [Continued on next page...] Tell a friend! |
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