VisualStudio 2005 and Load Testing
Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Wed, 17/08/2005 - 02:25.
performance testing | Visual Studio Team System 2005
I took a first look at the VS 2005 load testing tool and am far less enthusiastic than Scott, Antony, and Alejandro. I haven’t found any meaningful documentation (other than a sequence of steps in simple cases) or white paper (although there are a few new interesting things there: load testing in a development IDE, using unit tests in load testing, a system of tests, etc.). Looks like Microsoft doesn’t allocate enough resources to really push it. So my guess that it will commoditize load testing further, but wouldn’t compete for the professional load testing market at least in this release.
It works fine in simple cases. Unfortunately, my effort to try it for more complex applications failed at the beginning. Most of our applications open a separate window now – but VS doesn’t record anything from the new window. I submitted a question in the VS testing forum , but haven’t received any meaningful reply so far. So I wasn’t able to check how it works in more sophisticated cases. My guess is that support can also be a problem with that new tool.
It works fine in simple cases. Unfortunately, my effort to try it for more complex applications failed at the beginning. Most of our applications open a separate window now – but VS doesn’t record anything from the new window. I submitted a question in the VS testing forum , but haven’t received any meaningful reply so far. So I wasn’t able to check how it works in more sophisticated cases. My guess is that support can also be a problem with that new tool.