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What is the difference between reliability testing and load testing?

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What is the difference between reliability testing and load testing?

The term, reliability testing, is often used synonymously with load testing. Load testing is a blanket term that is used in many different ways across the professional software testing community. Load testing generally stops short of stress testing. During stress testing, the load is so great that errors are the expected results, though there is gray area in between stress testing and load testing.

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