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Online Help

Working with Web Tests

Working with Load Tests

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Custom Load Test Reports

Web-based load test reports and result management

 

Office Server (MOSS) and SharePoint

Sample web and load tests for SharePoint and Excel Server

 

SQL Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services Load Simulator

 

Whitepapers

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Using Visual Studio 2005 to Perform Load Testing on a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Server 

Tech notes

Load Test Analyzer

Advanced Load Testing Features of Visual Studio Team System

What’s in the Visual Studio Team System Load Test Results Store

Implementing Sync Points in Visual Studio Team System Load Tests

 

Other articles and content

Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Web Testing

VSTS for Testers product overview

Team Test Load Agent product overview

New! Testing Videos on ASP.NET

New!  Virtual Lab on Testing

New! Virtual Lab on ASP.NET Testing with Web Tests

 

Web Casts

New! Load Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300)

New! Web Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300)

Effective Web and Load Testing in Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)

Load and Web Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Level 200)

Troubleshooting Web Site Performance Issues with Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)

 

What’s new in Orcas

What's new in Orcas?

 

Orcas Web Test Features

Recorder now records AJAX and popups

Easily bind to csv or XML

UI improvements in playback

Support for multiple web test plugins  and parameterized plugins

API improvements

Request-level plugins

Correlation helper (in beta 2)

 

Orcas Load Test Features

Load test result manager

Summary report

Support for multiple graphs, new performance graph, vertical zoom, synch zoom

New load model for user pacing, users running

User init/terminate functions, also here

Support for iteration count, cool down

Unit tests under load performance improvements

Custom Data Binding in Web Tests

 

Web/Load Test Bloggers

Sean Lumley

     New! Another Fiddler Web Test Plugin Example

New! Developing a Fiddler Web Test Plugin

New! Recording Web Tests with Fiddler

New! Debugging Web Tests

     Adding multiple plugins to a web test

     Adding an IE7 Browser Template for use by Web Tests

     ASP.Net Load Test Maintenance App

     Improve load test performance on multi-processor machines

     Custom Data Binding in Web Tests

     Load Test Reports are Available

     Adding Different Types of Data Sources to a Web Test

     Stopping a webtest on a request error

     Adding multiple plugins to a web test

     Improve load test performance on multi-processor machines

     Adding Analysis Comments to a Load Test

     Passing Load Test Context Parameters to Unit Tests

     Load Testing Web Services with Unit Tests

     Custom Data Binding in Web Tests

Ed Glas

     Performance testing guidance

     SharePoint Load Tests

     Load Agents

     Dial your load - custom load patterns in VSTS Load Tests

     Driving more load

     A pattern for successful load testing: Component Load Testing

Bill Barnett

     Advanced Load Testing Features of VSTS

     Simulation of browser caching in VSTS load tests and Web tests

     Limiting the number of tests run in a load test

     What is the data in the load test results store

     Deleting old load test results

     Implementing sync points

Josh Christie

     Better HTML parsing and validation with HtmlAgilityPack

     Check and modify the status of extraction or validation rules

     Can I call a web test from a web test?

     So you want to replay an IIS web server log?

     Why can't I generate more load?

     Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques

     Custom ExtractionRule to extract form fields by index

     A custom ValidationRule to catch redirects to error pages

     Creating custom IHttpBody classes for coded web tests

Mike Taute

     Managing goal-based load using multiple perfcounter thresholds

Dennis Stone

     New: Dynamic QueryString Correlation: Custom Extraction Rules and WebTest Plug-in

     New: How to Databind Web Test Properties that don't have the Databinding Dropdown UI in the Property Grid

Team Blog

     Web Services Testing

     Load Test Modeling: How to Simulate User Logon and Execute Tests in a Test Mix

     Understanding the Visual Studio Load Agent Controller

     Distributed Functional Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

     Testing web applications with pop ups