When performing an action recording of a Manual Test Case with parameters I hit a problem where my parameters were not getting mapped to a UI control correctly, giving me an Pass or Fail icon with a warning symbol overlaid on it for the parameterized...

I was discussing with a customer the other day around the posibility of hitting the maximum path limit in TFS. Great to see just days after the conversation a sample from James Pickell showing a Check-In policy to avoid this.

Sean Lumley has written an excellent blog article detailing how to debug pages that fail under load: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/debugging-errors-in-load-test.aspx We have this requirement quite a bit in our performance and scale lab sessions...

I'm always forgetting this one and people often ask me for it so I'm popping up here in the hope I'll find it easier next time. It's an old problem where Visual Studio 2005 goes looking to connect automatically to TFS when you change between TFS servers...

I had a colleagues customer ask today if it were possible to change the distribution for think time in load tests. It turns out it is, but unfortunatly not through the UI. The .loadtest generated by the UI is simply XML and each scenario you have within...

I was asked by a colleague today how to perform string concatenation in a web test for a query string they were wanting to be built up of some content from the data context and a hardcoded value. They wanted to do this without resorting to code in a plugin...

Just came across this on Neno Loje's Blog which is sooooooo cool. How cool is it to have access to the web access stuff direct from notification emails...Awesome!! http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/2007/08/31/changing-tfs-email-notifications...

Just a quick note as I couldn't find it anywhere during a quick search during my lab. I wanted to see if the Load Test results recorded from the 2005 edition of Visual Studio Team System would be viewable in Orcas. Thankfully I happy to say as of Beta2...

One of the activities I get involved in with customers as an ADC is to work with customers in our performance and scalability labs at our UK headquarters in Reading. These labs involve a customer bringing their solution to our facility and building up...

For sometime now I have been threatening to start writing a blog, finally it would seem if this makes it online then I've done it. The truth is that I'm really not sure whether I'm going to get blog fever or if this will become one of those never to be...