Soak testing

What if someone decides to play your game for 24 hours straight, host a meeting that long, or leave an operation running for weeks at a time? The next type of stress you can apply to your system is to perform valid and invalid actions over extended periods beyond their design limitations. Some of these limits will be policed with checks to ensure nothing takes longer than a specified time, while others will be open-ended. Some actions will change your system’s state, and others are individual operations you can apply repeatedly. That gives a matrix of possible cases, with examples here:

		Policed operation	Unpoliced operation
Valid operations	Ongoing state	Game length Call length Processing time	Web session length
	Separate operations...