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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Ed Glas's blog on VSTS load testing : Patterns and Practices</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Patterns+and+Practices/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Patterns and Practices</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Updated Content for web tests and load tests</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/2007/12/17/updated-content-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:36:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6791247</guid><dc:creator>edglas</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/comments/6791247.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6791247</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;I've updated my &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx"&gt;collection of links&lt;/A&gt; for info on web tests and load tests.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I had been publishing this to a sticky post on the &lt;A class="" href="http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1408&amp;amp;SiteID=1" mce_href="http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1408&amp;amp;SiteID=1"&gt;forum&lt;/A&gt;, but ran into the size limit so I'm moving it to my blog.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The page is &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/content-index-for-web-tests-and-load-tests.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;. Do let me know if you hit any links that are broken, the content gets moved around from time to time.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6791247" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+Team+Test/default.aspx">Visual Studio Team Test</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+Load+Controller/default.aspx">Visual Studio Load Controller</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Web+Test/default.aspx">Web Test</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Load+Test/default.aspx">Load Test</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Guidance/default.aspx">Guidance</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Patterns+and+Practices/default.aspx">Patterns and Practices</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Load+Agent/default.aspx">Load Agent</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Web+Test+Recorder/default.aspx">Web Test Recorder</category></item><item><title>Performance testing guidance</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/2007/02/17/performance-testing-guidance.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1698258</guid><dc:creator>edglas</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/comments/1698258.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1698258</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;The patterns and practices team, led by &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/"&gt;J.D. Meier&lt;/A&gt; and including Larry Brader and Carlos Farre, has teamed with a bunch of expert load testers as well as industry expert &lt;A class="" href="http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/74" mce_href="http://www.testingreflections.com/blog/74"&gt;Scott Barber&lt;/A&gt;, to create best practices guidance for load testing. The guidance is hosted on&amp;nbsp;codeplex at&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I had a great meeting with JD last week when I was in Redmond last week. I love the way he thinks, looking for underlying patterns in things that are timeless and independent of other factors (like type&amp;nbsp;of target app and&amp;nbsp;tooling to drive the tests). One of the goals of the performance testing guidance is to distill out this timeless information into nuggets that will stand the test of time. Then tie that together with additional guidance on things like tooling and target apps (these things that are more temporal), and to give guidance on how to put the perf testing into practice with a given toolset against a given target app.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1698258" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Load+Test/default.aspx">Load Test</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Guidance/default.aspx">Guidance</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/tags/Patterns+and+Practices/default.aspx">Patterns and Practices</category></item></channel></rss>