Stress test
The CIOB Planning Protocol 2021 (CIOB PP21), a technical information sheet published by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in February 2021, defines a stress test as: ‘a series of tests to be applied to a programme in order to assess the quality of it.’
--CIOB
NB Anticipate, react, recover; Resilient infrastructure systems, published by the National Infrastructure Commission in May 2020, defines stress testing as: ‘Testing a representation or simulation of a system to reveal its performance under certain conditions or to reveal the conditions that could lead to failure.’
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