Visual Studio Team System for Testers

Content Index for Web Tests and Load Tests

Getting Started

Online Help

Working with Web Tests, VS 2008, VS 2005

Working with Load Tests, VS 2008, VS 2005

Working with Controllers, Agents, and Rigs, VS 2008, VS 2005

Web Casts and Videos

VSTS Dev and Test Web casts

Load Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300)

Web Testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Level 300)

MSDN Webcast: Effective Web and Load Testing in Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)

Load and Web Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Level 200)

Troubleshooting Web Site Performance Issues with Visual Studio Team System (Level 200)

Testing Videos on ASP.NET

Virtual Labs

Virtual Lab on Testing

Virtual Lab on ASP.NET Testing with Web Tests

Product Overview

Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Web Testing

VSTS for Testers product overview

Team Test Load Agent product overview

Web/Load Test Bloggers

Sean Lumley

Bill Barnett

Ed Glas

Dennis Stone

Mike Taute

What’s new in VS 2008

What's new in VS 2008 for Web and Load Tests?

New Web Test Features

Recorder now records AJAX and popups

Easily bind to csv or XML

UI improvements in playback

Support for multiple web test plugins  and parameterized plugins

API improvements

Request-level plugins

Correlation helper

New Load Test Features

Load test result manager

Summary report

Support for multiple graphs, new performance graph, vertical zoom, synch zoom

New load model for user pacing, users running

User init/terminate functions, also here

Support for iteration count, cool down

Unit tests under load performance improvements

Custom Data Binding in Web Tests

Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2008

Debugging Web Tests

Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for VS 2005

Can I call a web test from a web test (VS 2005)?

CodePlex site for Plugins and Rules

Adding multiple plugins to a web test

Stopping a webtest on a request error (VS 2005)

Better HTML parsing and validation with HtmlAgilityPack

Check and modify the status of extraction or validation rules

Custom ExtractionRule to extract form fields by index

A custom ValidationRule to catch redirects to error pages (VS 2005)

Creating custom IHttpBody classes for coded web tests

Testing web applications with pop ups (VS 2005)

Dynamic QueryString Correlation: Custom Extraction Rules and WebTest Plug-in (VS 2005)

Diagnosing and fixing Web Test recorder bar installation issues

Load Testing Web Services with Unit Tests

Web Services Testing

Recording Web Tests with Fiddler

Another Fiddler Web Test Plugin Example

Developing a Fiddler Web Test Plugin

Adding Different Types of Data Sources to a Web Test

Custom Data Binding in Web Tests

How to Databind Web Test Properties that don't have the Databinding Dropdown UI in the Property Grid

Load Test Reports on CodePlex

Web-based load test reports and result management

Load Test Analyzer

Debugging Load Test Errors

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

Troubleshooting the VSTS Load Testing 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

Adding an IE7 Browser Template for use by Web Tests

Performance Tuning

Driving more load

Improve load test performance on multi-processor machines

Why can't I generate more load?

Load Patterns

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

Load Test Modeling: How to Simulate User Logon and Execute Tests in a Test Mix (VS 2005)

Features and behavior of Load Tests containing unit tests in VSTS 2008

Performance Testing Guidance

A pattern for successful load testing: Component Load Testing

Limiting the number of tests run in a load test (VS 2005)

So you want to replay an IIS web server log?

Deleting old load test results (VS 2005)

Office Server (MOSS) and SharePoint

SharePoint Load Tests

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