Software Testing Dictionary – 9
Sanity Testing – typically an initial testing effort to determine if a new software version is performing well enough to accept it for a major testing effort. For example, if the new software is often crashing systems, bogging down systems to a crawl, or destroying databases, the software may not be in a ‘sane’ enough condition to warrant further testing in its current state. Scalability testing is a subtype of performance test where performance requirements for response time, throughput, and/or utilization are tested as the load on the SUT is increased over time. [Load Testing Terminology by Scott Stirling ]…