Ed Glas's blog on VS load testing
Updated load test links
I've updated my links to info on web and load test post with the following links: New Item Templates...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/19/2008
New templates for plugins and rules
Inspired by templates developed by Dennis Bass of the services test labs, I added new item templates...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/19/2008
SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper available
The SharePoint team has published this awesome SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/13/2008
VS 2008 SP1 Released
SP1 has shipped. As I blogged about before here and here, there is a lot of good stuff in SP1 for...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/12/2008
dynaTrace is cool!
dynaTrace just completed a nice integration with VSTS web, unit and load tests that enables them to...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/08/2008
Masking a 404 error in a dependent request
There are times when your web test may fail with a 404 error in a dependent request (like a css file...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/06/2008
How to upload a file in a Web test
From this post, I see many users are having trouble with file uploads. Really this is not as easy as...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 08/05/2008
How to set a friendly name on an Extraction Rule
In VS2008, we changed the way custom Extraction rules, Validation rules, and web and load test...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/31/2008
WCF Load Test Tool is hot on codeplex
Check out the stats for the WCF load test tool on codeplex. The tool is approaching 2000 downloads!...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/30/2008
Updated Links to Info
I updated my Links to Info on Web and Load Tests post with new links. The last update was in March,...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/27/2008
Web test support for random text extraction in SP1
In SP1 we added a new Random property on the Extract Text rule. This simple property enables some...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/27/2008
Web, Load and Unit Testing Videos on MSDN
Check out these videos on MSDN. Here's the landing page for VSTS videos. Here are the testing...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/25/2008
SQL Load Test vs. Read80Trace and OStress
A reader asked about my post on SQL Load testing, and why someone would want to use that vs....
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/21/2008
New rules published to codeplex
I've published a new project to https://codeplex.com/teamtestplugins. This project is based on VS...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/21/2008
Dependent request filter for Web tests
A pretty common need when you are testing your web application is to filter out certain types of...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/17/2008
New tool for SQL Load Testing
Check out the new SQL Load Test project on CodePlex! Rob Jarratt, the VSTS ranger who wrote the WCF...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/14/2008
More on 2008 SP1
Bill Barnett has posted a couple of great articles detailing the new APIs we've added in SP1. Check...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/24/2008
Catching errors as they happen: WebTest ValidateResponseUrl
In VS 2008, we added a new Validation Rule ValidateResponseUrl. In VS 2005, a very common problem...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/24/2008
Build customized load test reports
The load test reporting project on https://CodePlex.com/LoadTestReports has been updated with...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/08/2008
VS 2008 SP1 Beta is available
Incase you haven't seen this, the beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. We've put a lot...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 05/27/2008
InfoPath WebTests on CodePlex!
The InfoPath team has written a set of WebTest plugins that enable testing InfoPath with a WebTest....
Author: Ed Glas Date: 04/25/2008
84,248 Ads per second!
The adCenter Display Ads Platform team recently ran a large test using VSTS. The goal of this...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/17/2008
Databinding in Web Tests
Check out Sean's nice new post on Access Methods in Web Test Data Sources. I've also added this to...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/17/2008
WCF Load Tests!!!
This is late in coming, but Rob Jarratt has published the WCF recording tool he has been working on...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/17/2008
SharePoint MVP load tests SharePoint
Liam Clearly recently used VSTS to test SharePoint and ran into a bug in the web test recorder. See...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/10/2008
Updated Content for web tests and load tests
I've updated my collection of links for info on web tests and load tests. I had been publishing this...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 12/17/2007
Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2008
Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2008 In Visual Studio 2008, many new features...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 12/02/2007
What do all those counters mean?
We get asked a lot about what the various counter mean in a load test, like requests/sec, response...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 11/08/2007
New web test plugin for scripting with a web test
Check out this cool new web test plugin written by Neil Kidd on the UK development team. It enables...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 11/06/2007
Web Test Recorder bar not showing up
We’ve seen an odd problem on some machines where the initial user on Vista 64 doesn’t work. The work...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 11/01/2007
New Microsoft Tester Center Launched!
We launched the Tester Center today, a new web site for the test community. Here you'll find links...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 10/23/2007
Agent Setup and Agent/Controller network connections
Check out Durga's blog post on setting up an agent in workgroup mode. One thing I noticed is that...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 10/05/2007
What does deployment do when running a test?
A lot goes on in deployment. Michael Koltachev, developer of the feature, recently sent an email...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/02/2007
New VSTS Testing Videos on ASP.NET website
Here is a nice set of short, focused videos hosted on ASP.NET: New Testing Videos on ASP.NET #1 |...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 07/02/2007
Sharepoint "file upload" recording bug in Whidbey
We recently uncovered a bug with Sharepoint file upload recording that may affect other file...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/14/2007
Screen shots for new features posted
I've posted screen shots for most of the new Orcas features to my newly created photo gallery. Ed.
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/13/2007
Fiddler 2 drop available at www.fiddler2.com
We have released a new version of fiddler and dramatically improved the web test generation from a...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 06/13/2007
What's new in Orcas in Web, Load, and Unit Tests?
Lot's of new stuff for web, load, and unit tests in Orcas. Follow the links for more info. Web test...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/27/2007
Web test correlation
I've been thinking a lot about web test correlation over the last 6 months. Web tests work at the...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/27/2007
Web Test correlation
I've been thinking a lot about web test correlation over the last 6 months. What exactly is...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/27/2007
Web Test and Load Test web casts 3/15 and 3/16
Rohit Chauhan and Chris Patterson are doing web casts today and tomorrow on web tests and load...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 03/15/2007
Keeping track of info on web and load tests
One comment I've heard is where's the info on web and load tests? There's a lot of stuff on the web,...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 02/19/2007
Performance testing guidance
The patterns and practices team, led by J.D. Meier and including Larry Brader and Carlos Farre, has...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 02/17/2007
A pattern for successful load testing: Component Load Testing
Nearly every server team at Microsoft now use Visual Studio Load Tests to test their server. I've...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 02/17/2007
Dynamics AX Performance Workbench coming soon
The Dynamics AX perf team, headed by Sri Srinivasan and Ron Thompson, are on the cusp of releasing a...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 02/17/2007
SharePoint Load Tests
The MOSS perf team (I think it stands for Microsoft Office Server System) just released sample web...
Author: Ed Glas Date: 02/17/2007