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4 questions in Non-Functional Test Strategy.

  1. Non-Functional Test Strategy advanced

    A trading platform's functional tests all pass and production fails under load. What should the non-functional test strategy contain?

    2 min answer zerodhaload-testingnfrsoak
  2. Non-Functional Test Strategy advanced

    ByteDance's Monolith paper (RecSys 2022) describes a recommendation system with minute-level parameter synchronisation whose training parameter servers are snapshotted only once a day, so a server failure loses up to a day of updates. The authors say they expected to need more frequent snapshots. What did they do instead of arguing about it, and what does that give a non-functional test strategy?

    3 min answer bytedancemonolithrecovery-objectivenfr
  3. Non-Functional Test Strategy advanced

    On 31 January 2017 a GitLab engineer removed the wrong PostgreSQL data directory, and the recovery mechanisms they believed they had turned out not to work. Roughly six hours of data was lost. Which property had never been tested, and what does that say about non-functional testing generally?

    2 min answer gitlabbackupsrestore-drilldr
  4. Non-Functional Test Strategy advanced

    Which non-functional properties can be tested pre-release, and which can only be verified in production?

    2 min answer non-functionalperformanceresilienceproduction