Test Run: Request/Response Testing with Windows PowerShell

The most fundamental form of Web testing is HTTP request/response testing. This involves programmatically sending an HTTP request to the Web application, fetching the HTTP response, and examining the response for an expected value.

In the May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, James McCaffrey shows you how to use Windows PowerShell to perform request/response testing for an ASP.NET application.

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