Load and Stress

[MarkCrowther]

Hiya All,

It's my view that Load and Stress testing are sub-types of the Performance test type and that Perfromance as a unique test type doesn't exist.

The reason being is that
* Load is testing the software/system within it's limits. Checking that it behaves as expected, to the correct profile.
* Stress is testing the software outside of it's limits. Here we check that the software 'fails gracefully' and maybe how it recovers.

Thoughts?

Mark.