This is such a huge thing, I felt like I had to mention it here: Unlimited Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Virtual Users with the Load Test Feature Pack now. Check this link for the details. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions...

The built in Validation Rule, called Response URL is case sensitive, and this rule is to help validate that a page that was redirected to another page during recording, also honors the same when playing back via a VS WebTest. The problem is that some...

Here is a solution to a problem that some folks have encountered running Visual Studio WebTests using HTTPS protocols. Some times there maybe a device (Load Balancer, Firewall, or Application Applicance) that does not support TLS (Transport Layer Security...

So you record a webtest in Visual Studio and during the playback you notice that you receive an HTTP response with the following, and all of your tests fail. HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill...

If you are using Visual Studio Team Test to develop WebTests, Unit Tests, Load Tests, then you need to pick up this guide. This was released by one of my team members, Geoff Gray, and it really contains the sum of a lot of lessons learned, tricks and...

How to get the total word count for a specific word in your VSTS WebTest. 1. Create an Extension Method (has to be static) that allows your Count to appear off of any string as if it were a method of the class. 2. Use Extension method in any project...

DeclarativeWebTestSerializer Class MSDN Documentation , Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting The idea for this stems from a blog entry that I found written by fellow Microsoft Employee Dennis Stone. How...

I have just created my first blog (March 16,2009), and now the fun part, I need to figure out what topics I would like to write about. I think I will start out with a couple of posts related to: Methodology of practical performance testing -...