Chapter 2 – Testing Throughout the SDLC
Chaos Engineering – ISTQB Definition
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Official ISTQB Definition
The discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.
In simple words
Intentionally break parts of a live system to check it handles failure gracefully.
Exam tip
Chaos engineering is a shift-right technique often paired with SRE.
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