In VS2008, we changed the way custom Extraction rules, Validation rules, and web and load test Plugins return a friendly name and description. In 2005, these were implemented as override on the abstract base class. The problem with this was that it required...

Check out the stats for the WCF load test tool on codeplex. The tool is approaching 2000 downloads! Kudos again to Rob Jarratt, who wrote this tool. It's great that we have a platform with the right extensibility hooks that enables us to produce out band...

I updated my Links to Info on Web and Load Tests post with new links. The last update was in March, so it was due. I also moved some links into a separate table that are specific to 2005. Some of the 2005 context still applies to 2008, so I left that...

In SP1 we added a new Random property on the Extract Text rule. This simple property enables some really powerful scenarios. The best example is to randomly select a link that is the result of a query. This works nicely if search result urls are uniform...

Check out these videos on MSDN. Here's the landing page for VSTS videos. Here are the testing related videos: How Do I: Create a Data-Bound Web Test? How Do I: Use .NET Code to Customize Coded Web Tests? How Do I: Use the Visual Studio Team System Test...

A reader asked about my post on SQL Load testing , and why someone would want to use that vs. Read80Trace and OStress . OSTRESS does straight record/playback of a trace file, but does not allow you to do experiments on mixing up commands, nor does it...

I've published a new project to http://codeplex.com/teamtestplugins . This project is based on VS 2008. A summer intern we have from Duke, Herodotos Herodotou, has developed a nice set of rules we did not have before. All of the rules have to do with...

A pretty common need when you are testing your web application is to filter out certain types of dependent requests. For example, if a page you are testing has an ad in it from an external site, you may not want to hit that site in your load tests. Here...

Check out the new SQL Load Test project on CodePlex ! Rob Jarratt, the VSTS ranger who wrote the WCF script generator for load testing WCF apps has done it again, this time for SQL! Once again he teamed up with the Services Test Lab to deliver this tool...