Guild Wars 2

hi, i know ablout alpha test and closedbeta test and open beta test , but what is stress test ? and whats the goal in stress test if u have any info plz share with me ty

Stress test is basically to get as much people to play as possible at the same time in order to see how much the servers can handle.

oh i thought its what they do in open beta to see how many servers they need and how much a server can handel, coz this test now is limited to small number of players i think idk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_testing#Software

ok ty i watched it last day didnt pay attention there is a part for software testing i saw the hardware 1 :P

I think that name is usually used when they’re testing the hard ware, but it can apply to software too.

In this case my guess is people will be playing something very similar to the HoT demo that was available at conventions – everyone will be in the same copy of 1 map so they can see how the scaling works and how events go with a full map there.

In this case they’re trying to break the game with random players all over the world with as many different hardware types as possible.
As they only have so many employees, this allows them a huge boost in random resources to find as many bugs as possible with their new engine changes. They’ll also record as much performance data as they can to better improve the game.

Greyrebel.7492:

hi, i know ablout alpha test and closedbeta test and open beta test , but what is stress test ? and whats the goal in stress test if u have any info plz share with me ty

Stress test is just a fancy way of saying demo, so you can play of a unstable build of the game to test how much the server can hold up before crashing.

Keep in mind you won’t be playing the same build that the developers and Inhouse testers are working on. So many of the issues may already be fixed, that you run into.

it also means that there’s a good chance of delays, lag, and so forth (as we noticed — sometimes — during the pre-launch stress tests)