simulation testing
simulates system components rather than using real hardware, networks, and operating systems
simulation testing in a sentence
“Simulation testing allowed engineers to inject network partitions and clock skew deterministically.”
Related Words
dependency
a relationship between two operations that establishes ordering constraints, such as process, write-read, or real-time dependency
definite error
an operation return indicating the operation definitely did not happen, such as a transaction abort
indefinite error
an operation return where the outcome is uncertain; the operation may or may not have executed, exemplified by timeouts
predicate
a condition identifying a set of objects rather than a single item, such as all rows matching a WHERE clause
process
a logically single-threaded state machine participating in a distributed system
process dependency
a relationship between subsequent operations performed by the same process