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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
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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
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:55 PM

Elevating the Role of the Tester with Visual Studio 2010

I am very excited and proud to introduce the new testing features you’ll find in Visual Studio 2010. In addition to continuing to work on the performance testing tools, I have also been focusing on delivering a new set of products for the entire test
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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
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:49 PM

Event ordering in Web Tests

Web tests have a number of extensibility points before and after a request. What order do they run in? The hooks are: WebTestPlugin.PreRequest WebTestRequestPlugin.PreRequest ExtractionRule.Extract ValidationRule.Validate Here is a sequence diagram that
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:17 PM

JW post on MS Testing - my observations

Check out James's recent post with the eye-catching title “if Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?” I have another angle on this, which I saw first hand with our Whidbey release. It goes to some of the themes I refer to in my
Posted by edglas | 2 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
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:01 PM

Masking a 404 error in a dependent request

There are times when your web test may fail with a 404 error in a dependent request (like a css file or gif), but you may not actually care about this error. For example, it may be something that doesn't really impact the layout or content of the page.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:53 PM

WCF Load Test Tool is hot on codeplex

Check out the stats for the WCF load test tool on codeplex. The tool is approaching 2000 downloads! Kudos again to Rob Jarratt, who wrote this tool. It's great that we have a platform with the right extensibility hooks that enables us to produce out band
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:24 PM

Updated Links to Info

I updated my Links to Info on Web and Load Tests post with new links. The last update was in March, so it was due. I also moved some links into a separate table that are specific to 2005. Some of the 2005 context still applies to 2008, so I left that
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