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• Bug in VSTS 2008 SP1 causes think time for redirected requests to be ignored in a load test

  Unfortunately, late last week we discovered a nasty bug with load testing in VSTS 2008 SP1 that is a regression from the original RTM version of VSTS 2008: for Web test requests that result in redirects, any think time that is specifed on the request Read More... Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 8:08 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 4 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, testing, Web test

• Disabling caching of all dependent requests

  In a previous blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar/archive/2007/01/22/simulation-of-browser-caching-in-vsts-load-tests-and-web-tests.aspx , I described the behavior of caching with VSTS 2005. With VSTS 2008, t he default caching behavior is the Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 8:56 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 3 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• Web Test API enhancements available in VSTS 2008 SP1 (beta)

  The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. This article describes enhancements to the VSTS Web test API that have been added in this update. For complete details on changes and bugs fixes in this release, see Ed Glas's blog post at: http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/2008/05/27/vs-2008-sp1-beta-is-available.aspx Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:17 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 3 Comments Filed under: VSTS, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• Content Index for Web and Load testing

  Ed Glas has posted a "Content Index for Web and Load Tests" on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx . This provides links to a variety of online resources (forums, blogs, whitepapers) for VSTS Read More... Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 7:44 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• Troubleshooting the VSTS Load Testing IP Switching Feature

  First some background on how IP Switching works with VSTS, which may differ from other load test tools you have used: Many other load testing tools that support IP Switching (also known as IP spoofing) require you to add the IP addresses to the network Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:27 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 1 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• Mike Taute's blog post on Diagnosing and fixing Web Test recorder bar issues

  For anyone have trouble getting the VSTS Web test recorder to start recording properly, see Mike Taute's blog post on diagnosing and fixing these problems at: http://blogs.msdn.com/mtaute/archive/2007/11/09/diagnosing-and-fixing-web-test-recorder-bar-issues.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 3:31 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTS, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• Simulation of browser caching in VSTS load tests and Web tests

  In a VSTS load test that contains Web tests, the load test attempts to simulate the caching behavior of the browser. Here are some notes on how that is done: · There is a property named on each request in a Web test named “Cache Control” in the Web test Read More... Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 8:07 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 4 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, testing, Web test