When playing back a recorded web test with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition SP1 the web test fails due the size of the Response

Scenario: You have a recorded a web test using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition SP1. When you play back the web test it fails. The actual error message might vary.

Reason: By default Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition SP1 captures the first 1.5 MB of the response; as a result the response is truncated.

Solution 1:

• Create a coded Web test by converting a recorded Web test
•  Add the following code to the constructor -   this.ResponseBodyCaptureLimit = 3500000;

Solution 2:  

• Create a Web Test Plug-In
• Sample code for the plug-in

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting;

namespace PluginSample

{

public class Class1 : WebTestPlugin

{

public override void PreWebTest(object sender, PreWebTestEventArgs e)

{

e.WebTest.ResponseBodyCaptureLimit = 2000000;

}

}

}

To add the Web test plug-in, click Set Web Test Plug-in on the toolbar. This displays your test plug-in in the Set Web Test Plug-in dialog box. Select your class and then click OK.