Chaos Engineering – Stackoverflow Error A developer discusses the StackOverflowError that can occur when writing Java code, as well as how to diagnose and solve the error. by Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.Join For Free In our series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning to simulate various performance problems. In this post, let’s discuss how to simulate a StackOverflow error. A StackOverflow error is a runtime error. In this post, we'll simulate a StackOverflowError, diagnose it, and solve the problem. Sample Program java.lang.StackOverflowError. StackOverflowDemo class. This class has a start() method which calls itself recursively. This implementation will cause the