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• VSTS 2010 Feature: More flexible load modeling via new options on Load Test Scenarios

  In VSTS 2010 Beta 1 (available for download here ), there are four new properties on each Scenario in a Load Test that give you more control of the time, location, and duration of the running of the Scenario during the load test. You can access the Scenario Read More... Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:56 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 2 Comments Filed under: Unit test, VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test, VSTS2010, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS Testing

• VSTS 2010 Feature: Sequential Test Mix

  VSTS 2010 Load Tests offer several new options that can be set on each Scenario in the load test that give you more control over the execution of the Scenarios within the load test and therefore allows you to more easily create a load test that accurately Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:20 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 1 Comments Filed under: Unit test, VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test, VSTS2010, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS Testing

• VSTS 2010 Load Test Feature: Saving Test Logs

  Now that VSTS 2010 beta 1 is available I and other Load Test development and test team members will be writing a series of blog posts highlighting the new Web and Load testing features. Ed Glas has a blog post that lists the new features here . You can Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:04 AM by billbar@microsoft.com | 2 Comments Filed under: Unit test, VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test, VSTS2010, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS Testing

• Hot fix available for think time bug introduced in VSTS 2008 SP1

  There is now a hot fix available at http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15510 for the bug introduced in VSTS 2008 SP1 where think times were being ignored during a load test for Web test requests that resulted Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:03 PM by billbar@microsoft.com | 5 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, tsbt-tst, testing, Web test

• 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 | 7 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 | 5 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 | 1 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 | 5 Comments Filed under: VSTS, Load test, testing, Web test