Sean Lumley's Blog

The following blog post will describe how to create custom counter sets: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/creating-custom-counter-sets.aspx

The following blog post will discuss access methods in data sources and what happens when you run a load test on multiple agents. http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/description-of-access-methods-in-data-sources.aspx

This blog post will describe what happens and what does not happen when a web test executes: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/web-tests-work-at-the-http-layer.aspx

Check out this great post by Ed Glas for a lot of valuable information for debugging web tests: http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/2007/12/02/web-test-authoring-and-debugging-techniques-for-vs-2008.aspx

This blog post will walk you through how to debug one type of error that may appear during your load test: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/debugging-errors-in-load-test.aspx

Check out this post for how to use multiple load test scenarios to model multiple user groups within a load test: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/using-mutliple-scenarios-in-a-load-test-to-model-user-load-for-different-groups.aspx

Checkout this blog post for information on how to collect timing details about every page, test and transaction in your load test as well as generate 90th and 95th percentile data for the pages, tests and transactions: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages...

Check out this post for links to more information about new features in Orcas: New Features

Ed Glas has put together a great index of resources for web/load testing. Check it out, there is a lot of good information in there: Web/Load Resources

The sample reports I put together have moved to http://www.codeplex.com/loadtestreports/ . We also started a codeplex project which will provide additional extraction/validation rules: http://www.codeplex.com/TeamTestPlugins .

Check out this blog post for a description of the enhancements made to the load test execution/post run UI's for the Orcas VS release: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/load-test-execution-post-run-ui-enhancements.aspx

Check out this post to see some of the enhancements to the web test playback UI: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/web-test-playback-enhancements.aspx

Check out this blog post for more information on the Load Test Summary report feature available in Orcas version of VS: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/load-test-summary-report.aspx

Check out this post for information on how to use the new Manage Load Test Results Feature: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/managing-load-test-results.aspx

Check out this blog post for information on the new Web Test Correlation Helper feature which will be available in the Orcas release of Visual Studio. http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/web-test-correlation-helper-feature-in-orcas.aspx

Please see this article for a simple example of a fiddler web test plugin: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/another-fiddler-plugin-example.aspx

The following article walks you through the process of writing your own fiddler web test plugins and shows you how you can modify what fiddler saves to the .webtest file: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/writing-fiddler-web-test-plugins.aspx

The following article discusses enhancements made to fiddler which make it easier to use fiddler for recording/saving VSTS web tests. http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/enhanced-web-test-support-in-fiddler.aspx

This article will walk you through the process for debugging a web test. http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/how-to-debug-a-web-test.aspx

The following post walks you through the process of adding multiple request and test plugins to a web test: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/adding-multiple-test-and-request-plugins-to-a-web-test.aspx

Here is an article for adding an IE7 Brwoser template: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/adding-an-ie7-browser-template-for-use-by-web-tests.aspx

Here is an article for how to stop a web test when an error occurs: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/adding-an-ie7-browser-template-for-use-by-web-tests.aspx

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This post will show you how to use a simple ASP.net app I created which will allow you to delete old load test runs, add analysis comments and easily link to summary reports. The application is available for download on gotdotnet.com.: GotDotNet Download...

This post is about improving the performance of a load test when running the test on a multi-processor machine. http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/improve-load-test-performance-on-multi-processor-machines.aspx