Web tests have a number of extensibility points before and after a request. What order do they run in? The hooks are: WebTestPlugin.PreRequest WebTestRequestPlugin.PreRequest ExtractionRule.Extract ValidationRule.Validate Here is a sequence diagram that...

Eric Lawrence has added a cool new feature to fiddler to visualize what is happening in your http traffic. Here's a snippet from the online fiddler help : Timeline The Timeline Tab shows the transfer timeline of selected HTTP Sessions. NOTE:...

Check out James's recent post with the eye-catching title “if Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?” I have another angle on this, which I saw first hand with our Whidbey release. It goes to some of the themes I refer to in my...

James Whittaker, a testing luminary, joined Team Test a while back and has started blogging . You'll find his blogs very interesting! Ed.

I've updated my links to info on web and load test post with the following links: New Item Templates for custom rule and plugin development Data Driven Web Testing With Visual Studio 2008 Team System InfoPath Forms Services 2007 Web Testing Toolkit...

Inspired by templates developed by Dennis Bass of the services test labs, I added new item templates to the codeplex.com\TeamTestPlugins project. If you install these on your machine it makes creating new plugins much easier: If you work with web and...

Many CIOs and Test Managers are interested in increasing the level of automation in testing efforts. What is automation good for? What is the best way to go about this? How much automation is enough? And who should do it, and when? I've heard on more...

The SharePoint team has published this awesome SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper where they tested loading up SharePoint with 50 million documents. It outlines the architecture and testing methods they used to conduct the study...

SP1 has shipped. As I blogged about before here and here , there is a lot of good stuff in SP1 for TeamTest. The English downloads are available here . Note, if you are using a different language VS, the patch is available in all languages too. I have...

dynaTrace just completed a nice integration with VSTS web, unit and load tests that enables them to do end-to-end tracing of performance. In addition to getting overall performance numbers, they have a feature called PurePath that let's you trace, down...

There are times when your web test may fail with a 404 error in a dependent request (like a css file or gif), but you may not actually care about this error. For example, it may be something that doesn't really impact the layout or content of the page...

From this post, I see many users are having trouble with file uploads. Really this is not as easy as it should be. To upload a file, first record the file upload. I have a simple site that I did that on to generate this web test. The key parameter...