15. Stress can be defined as a state of worry or
mental tension caused by a difficult
situation. Stress is a natural human
response that prompts us to address
challenges and threats in our lives.
Everyone experiences stress to some
degree.
16. What
Does
Stress
Testing
Mean?
Stress testing refers to the testing of
software or hardware to determine whether
its performance is satisfactory under any
extreme and unfavorable conditions, which
may occur as a result of heavy network
traffic, process loading, underclocking,
overclocking and maximum requests for
resource utilization.
17. Stress
Test
A stress test is used for determining the reliability
and stability of all of your web resources, like
websites, applications, and APIs. Stress testing aims
to find the breaking point of a website/application
under extremely high load over a period of time. It is
also called endurance testing. This eliminates the
root cause of any breaking points and helps to
identify areas to scale up resources so that the
website or application doesn’t crash under peak
conditions.
18. SOFTWARE: stress testing emphasizes availability and error handling under extremely
heavy loads to ensure software does not crash due to insufficient resources. Software
stress testing focuses on identified transactions to break transactions, which are
heavily stressed during testing, even when a database has no load.
HARDWARE: stress testing ensure stability in normal computing environments.
WEBSITES: Stress testing determines the limitations of any of the site’s
functionalities
CPU: modifications such as overvolatage, undervoltage, under locking and
overlocking are verified to determine whether they can withstand heavy loads by
running a CPU- intensive program to test for system crashes or hangs.
19. CPU stress testing carried out to check
the performance of the performance of
the component while running it at full
speed and maxing its temperature. When
a CPU is being tested, all the cores of the
chip will get used also to ensure a
thorough test.
20. 1. PRIME95
Prime95 was developed by GIMPS, a
computing project aimed at finding
new Mersenne prime numbers.
However, while Prime95 was
originally intended to find Mersenne
prime numbers, the torture test that
is included in the program has been
adopted by many hardware
enthusiasts to help them stress test
their processor especially after
overclocking their CPU and memory.
21. 2. AIDA64
Aida64 is another CPU stress test
tool that a lot of users prefer over
Prime95. Whereas Prime95’s torture
test can push your processor to
operate in an unrealistic manner,
Aida64 takes a more practical
approach by mimicking real-world
processes that place a 100% load on
your processor to test how it will
hold up.
22. 3. IntelBurn Test
IntelBurn Test is another CPU
stress testing tool that will
help you push your CPU to the
max in order to determine if it
is stable. Like Prime95,
IntelBurn test also gets some
flak for pushing the processor
further than necessary.
