JESUS H. CHRIST
As part of the project I am planning, I have investigated AUTOMATED STRESS TESTERS.
You don’t even need to have live humans. You can simulate 10,000 artificial users with each copy of the program running on a different server. HOW HARD IS IT TO BUY A TESTING PROGRAM??!?!?
They could have had a real-world stress test AND a full-scale beta test AND a user acceptance test by just allowing their thousands of carefully-vetted volunteers to bang on the app some Saturday several weeks before the election.
Instead, someone who apparently has no real-world systems implementation experience lived in a dreamworld that you switch on access the day you need the system to work - and the only day that the system can do anything for you - and despite years of accumulated experience to the contrary, it can be expected to deliver.
Not.
Heh, heh. Yes, there are all kinds of automated load & stress testing tools. The tools I’ve used were built by Mercury and Rational.