While you can benchmark your PC using games and other kinds of software, stress tests are a bit more specific in that they allow you to test the extremes of your computer's performance make sure ...

Stress testing a network is performed by transmitting excessive numbers of packets or attempting to break in illegally (see IP stressor). Software stress testing is done by feeding the program ...

The stress test, which will include 22 banks compared to last year’s 32, will feature two added hypothetical elements for the Fed’s “exploratory analysis” of the banking system.

The fact is, even if the software used to run stress-tests were available to the general public (which it isn’t), you would still be left with the trouble of deciphering the results of the test ...