I was looking for the verbal explanations of different performance testing types and saw a new one called "breakpoint test". Its explanation seemed very similar to stress testing for me. So what is the difference, or is there any difference?
Stress Test: A verification on the system performance during extremely high load which is way above the peak load
Breakpoint Test: This test determines the point of system failure by gradually increasing the number of simulated concurrent users.
As far as I know, we increase the load gradually while performing stress test too. So what is the difference between this two type?
CodePudding user response：
From the workload point of view the approach is exactly the same, my understanding is:
- Stress test is about finding the first bottleneck, it's normally applied before deployment or even at early stages of development (see shift-left concept)
- Breakpoint (sometimes also called Capacity) test is about checking how much load the overall integrated environment can handle without issues and what is the slowest component which is a subject for scaling up/optimization.
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