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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...
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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...
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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...
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This post describes how the user load is adjusted when a load test scenario uses a goal based load pattern. First of all, if there is a warm-up period specified, the goal based pattern does not apply during the warmup period. Instead, the load test creates Read More...
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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...
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If you want to collect performance counters from a SQL Server instance while running a load test, you can do this easily by selecting checking the SQL counter set in the "Manager Counter Sets" dialog in the VSTS load test editor. Doing this includes the Read More...
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I've posted a new article on diagnosing problems running out of memory while running a VSTS load test: http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar/pages/diagnosing-outofmemoryexceptions-that-occur-when-running-load-tests.aspx . Read More...
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We’ve had a number of users report OutOfMemoryExceptions occurring in the QTAgent process (or the VSTestHost process when running locally). There can be several different causes of the OutOfMemoryExceptions. This article attempts to help diagnose and Read More...
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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...
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As mentioned in previous blog posts, the beta version of VSTS 2008 SP1 is now available. In order to implementation the Load Test API enhancements (described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar/pages/load-test-api-enhancements-in-vsts-2008-sp1-beta.aspx Read More...
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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...
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This is my first blog post of a personal nature. I heard on TV this morning that today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy ( http://www.robertfkennedy.net/ ). Today though I'm remembering another great American who died a Read More...
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The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available and includes enhancements to both the Web test and load test APIs that are described in these articles: http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar/pages/web-test-api-enhancements-available-in-vsts-2008-sp1-beta.aspx Read More...
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The beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. This article describes enhancements to the VSTS Load Test API for use by a LoadTestPlugin that have been added in this update. For complete details on changes and bugs fixes in this release, see Ed Read More...
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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...
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