performance tests

[Hanne Jorgensen]

Hello

I just changed company and realized that the terminology concerning
performance tests in my new company is used very differently from in my old
one. Load tests, stress, scalability, sizing, stability, nominal performance
tests...the list is long.
Does anybody know if a "standard" definition of these terms exist and if
yes, where can I find it?

thanks!
Hanne

[Phlip]

> I just changed company and realized that the terminology concerning performance tests in my new company is used very differently from in my
old one. Load tests, stress, scalability, sizing, stability, nominal
performance tests...the list is long.
Does anybody know if a "standard" definition of these terms exist and if yes, where can I find it?

Do you want to get in trouble with your new company, trying to change their
definition? or do you want to know what >their< definition is?

This question sounds like just honeymoon jitters.

If they don't know, read their existing test code, reverse-engineer these
values out, and put them in a Wiki.

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[Alex Vinokur]

"Phlip" <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bdn21h$2cr@dispatch.concentric.net>... I just changed company and realized that the terminology concerning performance tests in my new company is used very differently from in my old one. Load tests, stress, scalability, sizing, stability, nominal performance tests...the list is long. Does anybody know if a "standard" definition of these terms exist and if yes, where can I find it? Do you want to get in trouble with your new company, trying to change their definition? or do you want to know what >their< definition is? This question sounds like just honeymoon jitters. If they don't know, read their existing test code, reverse-engineer these values out, and put them in a Wiki.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing

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