Ed Glas's blog on VSTS load testing

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As promised I have listed a number of useful links to get you started or help expand your existing knowledge

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Hello Ed,

Based on your invaluable advice I was able to set up a Rig comprising of one Controller and four Agents. This setup is working perfectly, however we have a web application that does not perform well on this configuration...

This web application is built in such a way that one user is not permitted into the system more than once... If say user A tries to access the system twice, the application errors causing the load test to bomb.

In an effort to resolve this problem, I did two things

1.    I set the DataBindingAccessMethod to Unique (I am using a .csv file to load the users).

2.    Test -> Edit Test Run Configuration -> Remote test run -> Webtest, I set the number of run iterations to “One run per data source row”.

The above settings did not help.

The results of my load test reports several errors inculding  404 – Not Found. In the Context tab of this error, I realize that $WebTestIteration is set to 3 for some of my users… Does this mean that the same user is iterating through the test three times? If so, how can I make sure that each user is only able to access the test exactly once…(Please note the configuration of my Rigs: 1 Controller, 4 Agents).

Please see below for a partial part of the context information.

Thanks so much for your continuous help…

Have a wonderful day…

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I’ve updated my Load Test Links post with links to new posts, as well as added some links to content