http://blogs.msdn.com/amitjha/atom.xmlCommunity Server2007-05-22T16:25:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/amitjha/archive/2007/05/22/fiddler-and-vsts.aspx2007-05-23T02:25:00Z2007-05-23T02:25:00Z<P>Hi All,</P> <P>I had requirement of having to do load test for list of our webservices and&nbsp;find out the pain points in the web methods. I had a day to come to the conclusion to develop the load test and simulate the actual environment scenario.</P> <P mce_keep="true">I identified the task as &nbsp;</P> <P mce_keep="true">1) Writing the test with the similar soap envelope</P> <P mce_keep="true">2) The webmethods do not take simple primitive data type, they all take typed datasets.</P> <P mce_keep="true">I came across fiddler which is a pretty neat tool to capture HTTP traffic, <A href="http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/version.asp">http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/version.asp</A></P> <P mce_keep="true">VSTS Test suite gives us the WebTest and the Load test types. The best part of fiddler now is that it has a addin that can directly give you a .WEBTEST created that you could include in the VSTS test project. Awesome right ?</P> <DIV><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">Steps</FONT></DIV> <OL> <LI><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">Record a script with fiddler</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">Save sessions: File &gt; Save &gt; Sessions &gt; as Visual Studio Web Test...</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">Create a .loadtest including the .webtest created by fiddler</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">Run the .loadtest</FONT> </LI>&nbsp;</OL> <P mce_keep="true">Now the outcome is pretty fast, The customizations would be needed for changing the values for the input parameters. But still it gave excellent productive outcome within no time....</P> <P mce_keep="true">-Amit&nbsp;</P> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2802684" width="1" height="1">AmitJhahttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/AmitJha.aspx