Sean Lumley's Blog

I have been working on creating a set of reports which will report on the data in the Load Test Results store which is part of Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Edition. These reports have been developed using SQL Server Reporting Services. One of the benefits...

Now that VSTS 2010 beta 1 is available I will be writing a series of blog posts highlighting new Web and Load testing features. You can get the beta here: beta download The first feature that I want to review is creating load test run to run comparison...

In this blog post I am going to update Bill Barnett's post which describes the tables and columns in the load test database. Here is Bill's original post which applies to VS 2005 and VS 2008: 2008 Database First, in VS 2010 the default load test database...

This is my second post about new VS 2010 web/load testing features. You can get the beta here: beta download In this post I am going to talk about a number of usability enhancements that we made to the Web Test Playback UI and how you can use them...

This is another post about new VS 2010 web/load testing features. You can get the beta here: beta download In this post I am going to talk about a new load test feature called “Load test virtual user activity visualization”. This feature is a new way...

Here is an article which describes how to add different types of data sources to a web test: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/adding-different-types-of-data-sources-to-a-web-test.aspx

We have had a few questions about being able to data bind web tests to either formats that we do not support or to something other than a table, such as a select statement. This post should walk you through one way of creating custom data binding: http...

Here is an article which describes how to load test web services with unit tests: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/load-testing-web-services-with-unit-tests.aspx

One request which we have received a number of times is something like, “The Web test playback UI is great for when you are in VS, but I need to share these results with others. Can I generate a report from the web test result?” In VS 2005 and 2008, the...

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 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 is another post about new VS 2010 web/load testing features. You can get the beta here: beta download . In this post I am going to talk about a new feature that can help with web test recording. The feature is extensible recorder plug-ins for...

This blog post is going to be about one of my favorite new features added for Beta2. In Beta1 we added excel integration for reporting on Load Test Reports. In beta1, the report that was added was a trend report which would give you a feel for how certain...

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

This blog post will show you how you can run web and load tests from the command-line: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/running-web-and-load-tests-from-the-command-line.aspx

In a previous post I wrote about a new feature that was added for VS 2010 called extensible recorder plug-ins. Here is that post: Recorder Plug-ins Basically recorder plug-ins give you the opportunity to modify a recorded web test prior to the test being...

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

One of the new features in VSTS 2010 is Data Collectors. Data collectors can run as part of your test run and then associate the data collected with the test. This is also an extensibility point. You can create your own data collectors and store any kind...

VSTS 2010 Beta2 is out and there are a number of blog posts I want to write on the features now available to you. Check out Ed Glas’s blog post on the full set: Beta2 Features The first small feature that I am going to talk about is better integration...

This blog post will describe the enhancements that have been made to the data source functionality in web tests. We have heard the following feedback a number of times: I would like to be able to reload the data source while a load test is running...

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

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

Most of my recent posts have been about new features in VS 2010. This post is going to show you how to debug your custom rules. This applies to VS 2005, VS 2008 and VS 2010. First let’s create a Test Project Then Right click on the project node...

The following link is for the load test reports which I wrote about in the last post. These reports have been developed using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Please try them out and let me know what you think. http://www.codeplex.com/loadtestreports...

This blog post will make use of the some of the new web test API's added in VS 2008 SP1. This post will use the API's to collect additional web test information and then show you how to use excel to generate reports with this data. http://blogs.msdn...