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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
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
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
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
Posted by edglas | 3 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
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
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
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
Posted by edglas | 1 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 12:38 PM

New rules published to codeplex

I've published a new project to http://codeplex.com/teamtestplugins . This project is based on VS 2008. A summer intern we have from Duke, Herodotos Herodotou, has developed a nice set of rules we did not have before. All of the rules have to do with
Posted by edglas | 4 Comments
Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:18 PM

Dependent request filter for Web tests

A pretty common need when you are testing your web application is to filter out certain types of dependent requests. For example, if a page you are testing has an ad in it from an external site, you may not want to hit that site in your load tests. Here
Posted by edglas | 1 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
Posted by edglas | 3 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 1:58 PM

InfoPath WebTests on CodePlex!

The InfoPath team has written a set of WebTest plugins that enable testing InfoPath with a WebTest. See the project on codeplex here: http://www.codeplex.com/ipfswebtest The project contains custom extraction rules, a sample web test, and a doc on how
Posted by edglas | 2 Comments
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