Bill Barnett's blog
Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing
In VSTS 2010 Beta 1 (available for download here), there are four new properties on each Scenario in...
Date: 06/11/2009
VSTS 2010 Load Tests offer several new options that can be set on each Scenario in the load test...
Date: 06/10/2009
Now that VSTS 2010 beta 1 is available I and other Load Test development and test team members will...
Date: 06/08/2009
This post describes how the user load is adjusted when a load test scenario uses a goal based load...
Date: 09/12/2008
There is now a hot fix available at...
Date: 09/10/2008
If you want to collect performance counters from a SQL Server instance while running a load test,...
Date: 08/06/2008
I've posted a new article on diagnosing problems running out of memory while running a VSTS load...
Date: 08/05/2008
We’ve had a number of users report OutOfMemoryExceptions occurring in the QTAgent process (or the...
Date: 08/05/2008
Unfortunately, late last week we discovered a nasty bug with load testing in VSTS 2008 SP1 that is a...
Date: 08/04/2008
Running Load Tests with VSTS 2008 SP1 requires that SP1 be installed on VS client, controller, and agents
As mentioned in previous blog posts, the beta version of VSTS 2008 SP1 is now available. In order to...
Date: 06/13/2008
In a previous blog post here:...
Date: 06/06/2008
This is my first blog post of a personal nature. I heard on TV this morning that today marks the...
Date: 06/05/2008
The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available and includes enhancements to both the Web test...
Date: 06/04/2008
The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. This article describes enhancements to the...
Date: 06/04/2008
The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. This article describes enhancements to the...
Date: 06/04/2008
I've posted an article on "Moving VSTS 2005 Load Test results from one computer to another":...
Date: 04/03/2008
In VSTS 2008, it is now possible to easily export load test results from one test environment and...
Date: 04/03/2008
I've posted an article on "Adding Console Output to Load Tests running Unit Tests":...
Date: 04/03/2008
VSTS allows you to use the Console.WriteLine within unit tests, but the output is only valid when...
Date: 04/03/2008
Ed Glas has posted a "Content Index for Web and Load Tests" on his blog at:...
Date: 12/17/2007
I've posted an article on "Troubleshooting the VSTS Load Testing IP Switching Feature":...
Date: 11/28/2007
First some background on how IP Switching works with VSTS, which may differ from other load test...
Date: 11/28/2007
For anyone have trouble getting the VSTS Web test recorder to start recording properly, see Mike...
Date: 11/12/2007
I've posted an article that describes how Load Tests that contains Unit Tests work in VS 2008:...
Date: 10/12/2007
This article describes the behavior in VS 2008 for load tests that contain unit tests (VS 2005 was...
Date: 10/12/2007
By default, the Visual Studio Team Test Controller listens on TCP/IP port number 6910. If for any...
Date: 07/31/2007
Here is a summary of just a few of the enhancements to Web testing and load testing coming in the...
Date: 06/14/2007
If you are using Coded web tests (or Web test plug-ins with a declarative Web test) and running the...
Date: 06/13/2007
In a VSTS load test that contains Web tests, the load test attempts to simulate the caching behavior...
Date: 01/22/2007
I've posted an article with an example load test plug-in that allows you to specify the maximum...
Date: 02/16/2006
Normally the number of iterations of the inner tests (usually web tests and unit tests) run during a...
Date: 02/16/2006
If you're interested in accessing the data in the load test results store directly to build your own...
Date: 02/13/2006
Table: LoadTestRun: Contains one row for each load test that is executed. Columns: LoadTestRunId...
Date: 02/10/2006
Load testers sometimes need to clean up old load test results from the VSTS load test results store....
Date: 02/09/2006
I've posted an article on Implementing sync points in VSTS load tests at:...
Date: 02/09/2006
I've posted an article that discusses some of the advanced features of VSTS Load Testing. The...
Date: 01/24/2006
Visual Studio Team Test Edition provides two capabilities that can allow users to create load tests...
Date: 01/24/2006
I'd like to start this blog by introducing myself. I'm a Software Design Engineer (SDE) on the team...
Date: 01/23/2006