Stress Testing:

• In stress testing of MSBTE online result display, the resources used will be less than the requirement. For e.g. Provide less RAM for the server, or decrease the bandwidth of the internet connection, or provide less hits for page.

• If the system has limited resources available, the response of the online result system may deteriorate due to non-availability of the resources. It tries to break the page, site or connection under test by overwhelming its resources in order to find the circumstances under which it will crash.

• It is also a type of load testing. It is designed to determine the behavior of the software under abnormal situations. In stress testing test cases are designed to execute the system in such a way that abnormal conditions.

Load Testing:

• When a MSBTE online result display facility is tested with a load that causes it to allocate its resources in maximum amounts. The idea is to create an environment more demanding than the application would experience under normal workloads.

• Eg. Apply more number of hits on the result section, try displaying multiple results in multiple browsers, etc. Load is varied from minimum to the maximum level the system can sustain without running out of resources.

• Load is being increased transactions may suffer excessive delays. Load testing involves simulating real-life user load for the target application. It helps to determine how application behaves when multiple students hits it simultaneously to check the results.

• Load testing can be done under controlled lab conditions to compare the capabilities of different systems or to accurately measure the capabilities of a single system.