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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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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
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
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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
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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Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:11 PM

Web test support for random text extraction in SP1

In SP1 we added a new Random property on the Extract Text rule. This simple property enables some really powerful scenarios. The best example is to randomly select a link that is the result of a query. This works nicely if search result urls are uniform
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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
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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
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
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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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