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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:39 AM

New Performance Testing Training Available from RTTS

RTTS , a premier testing consultancy and test tools training company, now has training available for performance and load testing with VSTS 2008. RTTS specializes in providing software quality services, and offers training on a variety of tools. It is
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:04 PM

Are You Reporting Inaccurate Performance Numbers with VS 2008?

There’s a hidden problem with VS 2008 load testing that you need be aware if you are running tests locally (as opposed to using a controller and agents). If you purchase and run a load agent, load agents run on all cores and all CPUs on the machine. However,
Posted by edglas | 3 Comments
Monday, May 18, 2009 7:15 PM

Dev10 Beta 1 Available!

Beta 1 was released to the web today for MSDN subscribers. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download the Beta today from here . We have been very busy on this release of late (one reason why my blog posts have slowed down lately :)) My team and I
Posted by edglas | 12 Comments
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:50 PM

New, comprehensive technical documentation available for Web, Load, and Unit Tests

The VSTS Ranger team, led by Geoff Gray, just published the VSTT Quick Reference Guide 1.0 . This is a comprehensive collection of technical information on VSTT –- 83 pages of information!!! Many questions you may have on how stuff works in web, load,
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:13 PM

VSTS wins Testers Choice in for .NET Apps in Software Test and Performance Magazine

The annual testers choice awards are out in STP magazine , and VSTS took top spot in two categories in this years tester's choice poll, winning out over load runner for ".NET Performance Testing" and for "Integrated Test/Performance Suite". Congrats to
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 10:14 PM

Back from PDC

I spent last week in LA at the PDC. The conference was mainly focused on the new technologies Microsoft is working on bringing to market, such as Windows 7 and Azure. We also introduced the features in our next VSTS release, which customers were super-excited
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:19 AM

Updated load test links

I've updated my links to info on web and load test post with the following links: New Item Templates for custom rule and plugin development Data Driven Web Testing With Visual Studio 2008 Team System InfoPath Forms Services 2007 Web Testing Toolkit SharePoint
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:30 AM

New templates for plugins and rules

Inspired by templates developed by Dennis Bass of the services test labs, I added new item templates to the codeplex.com\TeamTestPlugins project. If you install these on your machine it makes creating new plugins much easier: If you work with web and
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Friday, August 08, 2008 6:13 PM

dynaTrace is cool!

dynaTrace just completed a nice integration with VSTS web, unit and load tests that enables them to do end-to-end tracing of performance. In addition to getting overall performance numbers, they have a feature called PurePath that let's you trace, down
Posted by edglas | 2 Comments
Friday, July 25, 2008 12:19 PM

Web, Load and Unit Testing Videos on MSDN

Check out these videos on MSDN. Here's the landing page for VSTS videos. Here are the testing related videos: How Do I: Create a Data-Bound Web Test? How Do I: Use .NET Code to Customize Coded Web Tests? How Do I: Use the Visual Studio Team System Test
Posted by edglas | 4 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 12:59 PM

SQL Load Test vs. Read80Trace and OStress

A reader asked about my post on SQL Load testing , and why someone would want to use that vs. Read80Trace and OStress . OSTRESS does straight record/playback of a trace file, but does not allow you to do experiments on mixing up commands, nor does it
Posted by edglas | 0 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 4:53 PM

New tool for SQL Load Testing

Check out the new SQL Load Test project on CodePlex ! Rob Jarratt, the VSTS ranger who wrote the WCF script generator for load testing WCF apps has done it again, this time for SQL! Once again he teamed up with the Services Test Lab to deliver this tool,
Posted by edglas | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:20 PM

Catching errors as they happen: WebTest ValidateResponseUrl

In VS 2008, we added a new Validation Rule ValidateResponseUrl. In VS 2005, a very common problem was that a page would redirect to the error page, but the web test engine did not automatically recognize this as an error. Then downstream in the playback
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:29 PM

Build customized load test reports

The load test reporting project on http://CodePlex.com/LoadTestReports has been updated with terrific new capabilities. A new report builder enables you to build reports in MS Word or HTML format, and customize the output. You can select different counters
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:39 PM

VS 2008 SP1 Beta is available

Incase you haven't seen this, the beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available. We've put a lot of work into this SP1 release, mostly around bug fixes for bugs that you reported on the forums and through tech support (mostly forums), as well as bugs
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