VS2010 Ultimate | New Blogs |
| | Visual Studio 2010 Load Testing with SharePoint – Configuring Web Performance Tests Part 1: Working With Data Sources SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application: Crawl Configuration for Anonymous SharePoint Site SharePoint 2010 Performance (Stress, Load) Testing How to: Visual Studio web performance tests – not using Internet Explorer Microsoft Test Controllers and Agents – where’s the CD??? Performance Testing Analysis Template for SharePoint Server 2010 Web Services Test Automation Guidance using VS 2010 – Unit Test & Web Test Unlimited Load Testing How to automatically run a load test as part of a build Load Testing your WCF Service in Two Clicks |
CodePlex plugins | |
| Web services and Silverlight plugin WCF Load Test plugin SQL Load Test plugin Magic Reports for Load Testing Web Services Automation guidance for Functional & Performance Testing |
Getting Started | |
Online Help 2010 | Testing Application Performance and Stress What’s New for Web Performance and Load Testing Getting Started with Load and Web Performance Tests Creating and Editing Load and Web Performance Tests Running Load and Web Performance Tests Analyzing Load Tests Results Using the Load Test Analyzer Examining Results Using the Web Performance Test Result Viewer Managing Load Test Results in the Load Test Results Repository Reporting Load Tests Results for Comparison or Trend Analysis Creating and Using Custom Plug-ins for Load and Web Performance Tests Troubleshooting Load and Web Performance Tests |
Forum | Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 |
Product Overview | Testing Application Performance and Stress |
| | Web and Load Testing with Visual Studio Team System |
| | VSTS for Testers product overview |
Web Casts and Videos | Web & Load Testing Webinars |
| | Load Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300) |
| | Web Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300) |
| | Troubleshooting Web Site Performance Issues with Visual Studio Team System (Level 200) |
| | Testing Videos on ASP.NET |
| | How Do I: Create a Data-Bound Web Test? |
| | How Do I: Use .NET Code to Customize Coded Web Tests? |
Training | Web & Load testing training at Testhouse Performance Testing Training Available from RTTS |
Guidance and References | Quick Reference Guide for VS Performance Testing |
| | Performance Testing Guidance |
| | Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications |
| | Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability |
| | Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System |
| | A pattern for successful load testing: Component Load Testing |
Web/Load Test Bloggers | Ed Glas
Sean Lumley
Bill Barnett
Dennis Stone
Yun Tong
Mike Taute
Ari Ijä
Sanjay Narang
Rubel |
What’s new in VS 2010 | What’s New for Web Performance and Load Testing |
| | Product Transitions from VS 2008 to VS 2010 for Load Testing |
| | Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010 |
| | Elevating the Role of the Tester with Visual Studio 2010 |
Web Test Debugging | Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for Visual Studio 2010 |
| | Debugging a Web Test with VS 2010 |
Web Test Recorder | How to: Create a Recorder Plug-In Adding Your Own Web Test Recorder Plugin to Make Record/Playback “Just Work” Web Test Recorder Plug-in Convert Comments entered in Web Test Recorder into Transactions Extensible recorder plugins for modifying recorded web tests |
| | How to: View Recording Log in Web Performance Test Playback VSTS 2010 Feature: View Recording Log in Web Test Playback Window |
| | New Tools Options for the Recorder |
| | More Recorder Enhancements in VS 2010 |
| | VSTS 2010 Feature: File Upload record/playback just works |
Web Test Editor | How to: Set Request Details in a Web Performance Test Request Details Editor |
| | Find/Replace in Web Test Editor |
| | Adding Loop and Branch Logic to Web Requests in Web Performance Tests Branching and Looping in Declarative Web Tests Looping and Branching in Web Tests |
| | Request Body Plugins How to: Create a Custom HTTP Body Editor for the Web Performance Test Editor |
| | How to: Use Reporting Names to Easily Identify Requests in a Web Performance Test |
Web Test Result Viewer | How to: Create a Visual Studio Add-In for the Web Performance Test Results Viewer Extensible Web test result viewer plugins Tracking viewstate using a webtest playback add-in Result Viewer Plugins |
| | How to: Resolve Web Performance Test Playback Issues Caused by Dynamic Parameters |
| | How to: Use Quick Find to Isolate Dynamic Parameters in Web Performance Test Playback |
| | How to: Jump to Web Request from the Web Performance Test Playback |
| | How to: Add an Extraction Rule from the Web Performance Test Playback |
| | API for Processing Web Test Results |
| | Enhancements for Web Test Playback UI |
Load Test Modeling | VSTS 2010 Feature: Sequential Test Mix |
| | VSTS 2010 Feature: More flexible load modeling via new options on Load Test Scenarios Configuring Test Iterations in a Load Test Scenario How to: Delay the Start Time of a Scenario Using the Load Test Editor |
| | Multiple Loadtest Plug-ins Creating and Using Custom Plug-ins for Load and Web Performance Tests |
Load Test Analysis | Using The Virtual User Activity Chart to Understand the VS Load Engine Load test virtual user activity visualization |
| | Modifying Load Test Logging Settings Saving Test Logs during a load test How to: Specify if Test Failures are Saved to Test Logs Using the Load Test Editor |
| | Deep integration with the ASP.NET profiler |
| | Deep integration with dynaTrace |
| | How to: Configure Event Log Collection Using Test Settings |
| | Create a Simple Data Collector to Integrate Data into Load Test Analyzer (Tables View)Integrate Data Collector Data into Load Test Analyzer (Tables View) |
Performance Reporting | Performance Reporting in Excel |
Agent/Controller | VS 2010 Test Agent and Test Controller Troubleshooting Guide |
| | VSTS 2010 Feature: Silent Installation of Controller and Agent |
| | Process Model Changes in VS 2010 |
| | How to: Specify 64-Bit Process Using Test Settings |
Network Emulation | How to: Configure Network Emulation Using Test Settings |
| | Introducing True Network Emulation in Visual Studio 2010 |
| | Stand-Alone Network Emulation and CodePlex |
| | Specifying Virtual Network Types in a Load Test Scenario |
Web Test | |
Debugging | Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for Visual Studio 2010 |
| | Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2008 |
| | Debugging Web Tests |
| | Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2005 |
| | How Web tests work: Web tests work at the HTTP layer, not through the browser |
| | How to: Resolve Web Performance Test Playback Issues Caused by Dynamic Parameters |
Extensibility | CodePlex site for Plugins and Rules |
| | New Item Templates for custom rule and plugin development |
| | Scriptable Parameter Values in web tests |
| | Event ordering in Web Tests |
| | Modifying Request Properties with a Web Test Plugin |
| | Better HTML parsing and validation with HtmlAgilityPack |
| | Creating custom IHttpBody classes for coded web tests |
| | Check and modify the status of extraction or validation rules |
| | Using new VS 2008 Web Test APIs to create Web Test Reports |
Tools and Techniques | |
| | Diagnosing and fixing Web Test recorder bar installation issues |
| | Disabling caching of all dependent requests |
| | Collecting Code Coverage when Running Web and Load Tests |
| | Sharing Test Results |
Web Services | Web Services Plugins for VS 2010 |
| | Load Testing Web Services with Unit Tests |
| | Web Services Testing |
Fiddler | VSTS 2010: Making it easy to debug web tests using Fiddler |
| | Recording Web Tests with Fiddler |
| | Another Fiddler Web Test Plugin Example |
| | Developing a Fiddler Web Test Plugin |
Data Binding | Access Methods in Web Test Data Sources |
| | Data Driven Web Testing With Visual Studio 2008 Team System (new) |
| | Custom Data Binding in Web Tests |
| | How to Databind Web Test Properties that don’t have the Databinding Dropdown UI in the Property Grid |
| | Adding Different Types of Data Sources to a Web Test |
Load Test | |
Reporting | Load Test Reports on CodePlex |
| | Web-based load test reports and result management |
Feature Drill Down | Load Test Plug-in Overview and Samples |
| | Analyzing Load Tests Results Using the Load Test Analyzer (VS 2010)Load Test Analyzer Overview (VS 2010)Load Test Analyzer (VS 2005) |
| | Debugging Load Test Errors |
| | Reading Performance Counters on Vista and Server 2008 Machines |
| | How to create a custom counter set |
| | Generating 90th and 95th percentile data as well as how to collect timing details for every single page, test and transaction |
| | Advanced Load Testing Features of VSTS, also here |
| | Load Agents |
| | Diagnosing OutOfMemoryExceptions that occur when running load tests (new) |
| | Using VSTS Test and Profilers to troubleshoot a High CPU in GC issue |
| | Using VSTS Test and Profilers to troubleshoot performance issues (low cpu hang) |
| | Troubleshooting IP Switching |
| | Understanding the Visual Studio Load Agent Controller |
| | Distributed Functional Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System |
| | Simulation of browser caching in VSTS load tests and Web tests |
| | What is the data in the load test results store, also here |
| | Adding Analysis Comments to a Load Test |
| | Collecting SQL counters from a non-default SQL instance in a VSTS Load Test |
| | Bug in VSTS 2008 SP1 causes think time for redirected requests to be ignored in a load test |
| | Are You Reporting Inaccurate Performance Numbers with VS 2008? |
Automating Web and Load Test Execution | Parameterizing Tests to Run in Different Environments |
| | How to run Web and Load Tests from the Command-Line |
| | How to run Web or Load Tests from another process |
Performance and Load Test Tools | |
WCF Load Tests | WCF Record/Playback for Visual Studio Load Tests |
SQL Load Tests | SQL Record/Playback for Visual Studio Load Tests |
Performance Tuning | Driving more load |
| | Improve load test performance on multi-processor machines |
| | Why can’t I generate more load? |
Load Patterns | Load Test Plug-in – Simulate Repeated Peak Load Modeling |
| | Managing goal-based load using multiple perfcounter thresholds |
| | Modeling multiple user groups within a load test |
| | Dial your load – custom load patterns in VSTS Load Tests |
| | Implementing sync points, also here |
| | So you want to replay an IIS web server log? |
| | How is the user load adjusted for a load test with a goal based load pattern? |
Unit Tests in a Load Test | Features and behavior of Load Tests containing unit tests in VSTS 2008 |
| | Adding Console Output to Load Tests running Unit Tests |
SharePoint | Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 |
| | SharePoint Load Tests on CodePlex |
| | SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance Whitepaper |
| | Sanjay Narang’s Collection of Links on SharePoint Performance Testing |
| | More posts on Testing SharePoint with VSTS |
Dynamics AX | Dynamics AX Performance and Load Testing: Application Benchmark Toolkit |
SQL Analysis Services | SQL Server Analysis Services Load Simulator |
SQL Reporting Services | Using Visual Studio 2005 to Perform Load Testing on a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Server |
InfoPath | InfoPath Forms Services 2010 Web Testing Toolkit InfoPath Forms Services 2007 Web Testing Toolkit |
