Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer.  However, the number of projects that I've seen where the planning step has been omitted is too high.  A throughly planned out project with as many features scoped before you start coding is critical in completing a project.  Whilst projects and their requirements are always fluid, the initial critical scoping is so important. Fail to plan, planning to fail There is no one way to plan.  Yes I've seen...

Load testing verifies the system performance under the expected peak load.  The peak load needs to set by a series of parameters that you have benchmarked targets.  For example, these parameters could include: Load testing: 20,000 concurrent users; and response time of under 4 seconds Stress testing: Verifies the server performance under extreme load.  Test this through examining how many users are required to bring your server Endurance testing: Load test over an extended...