load-testing

Stress Testing Managed Host with VS 2008

Is it possible to stress test a managed host (not my own machine) using VS 2008? ...

Can I export VSTS test results to .ltrar from command line?

I'm writing a script to trigger several VSTS load tests in a row using mstest.exe. I notice there's a /resultsfile option that lets me specify where the test results are stored, but it looks like this will only save a .trx file (which seems to be tied to the controller's test run database). I would like to export this result to an .ltra...

What is the best load testing tool?

What is the best load testing tool for ASP.NET applications? ...

Using JMeter with MSMQ

I need to load test a server that supports WebSphere MQ, web service and MSMQ interfaces. Currently I use proprietary load drivers for testing via WebSphere MQ and the web service, and we don't currently test MSMQ (it's new, and just being developed). I would like to "standardize" on a single load test tool; LoadRunner is too expensive (...

Recommend a book on load-testing an ASP.NET application

I need a book to recommend strategies for load-testing an ASP.NET application with SQL Server backend. Some info that may be useful: how to write a load test plan what perfmon counters to use and typical threshold values finding bottlenecks various load testing tools ...

Using VS 2008 Load Test with WebSphere MQ

I need to load test a server that supports WebSphere MQ, web service and MSMQ interfaces. Currently I use proprietary load drivers for testing via WebSphere MQ and the web service, and we don't currently test MSMQ (it's new, and just being developed). I would like to "standardize" on a single load test tool; does anyone know if you can t...

Ways to do Load Testing for Web Service Made for iPhone Application

Hello All... It's something strange I am posting here, as I have little bit confusion since last few days.. I have made a web service in asp.net 3.5 using MSSQL 2005 as backend, for my iPhone Application. Now, My Database have some critical fields like longitude and latitude, based on this almost all my web service is working. Curre...

Getting stats on cookieless session page using VS2008 load testing feature

I'm load testing a web page using visual studio load testing tool, but I have problems displaying results. The problem is cookieless session. Everytime new user comes to a page, page URLL changes and I'm not able to calculate average page response time. What can be done about it? ...

Running response time tests on php code - how much is 7.2E-5 microseconds?

Hi guys I'm using microtime() function of php to tell how long certain snippets of code take to run I do this by taking the time before and after the snippet and subtracting them using microtime function. I got the following results though for the different snippets: 1 - 0.022976 2 - 0.003656 3 - -0.196361 4- 0.006563 5- 7.2E...

Load Testing Java Web Application - find TPS / Avg transaction response time

I would like to build my own load testing tool in Java with the goal of being able to load test a web application I am building throughout the development cycle. The web application will be receiving server to server HTTP Post requests and I would like to find its starting transaction per second (TPS) capacity along with the avgerage re...

Throughput measurements

I wrote simple load testing tool for testing performance of Java modules. One problem I faced is algorithm of throughput measurements. Tests are executed in several thread (client configure how much times test should be repeated), and execution time is logged. So, when tests are finished we have following history: 4 test executions 2 th...

Visual Studio Web Testing - Are there any good books/videos available?

Hello, I am trying to find a good resource on web and load testing. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 ultimate and, while i'm sure it is too early for much material to be released, i'm hoping there are some good resources for Visual Studio 2008 that are still relevant. While MSDN has some good information I'm looking for something more cohesi...

Web Performance testing using VS2010 "Testing a file download"

Hi All, I am trying out the VS 2010 testing tools for the first time. And I tried recording a web performance test and my actions had a file download implemented as in the KB article here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812406 by streaming chunks of 10000 bytes. However my test is failing at the download saying "The response stream has...

VSTS 2008 Load testing, Is it any good?

I have already spent couple of weeks trying to use this tool to generate some webtest and load test. But every day it throws a weird problem for which I do not find anything in document. examples: Hidden variables (_lastfocus) not found in the context error. Today, all of sudden it is now refusing to run some of the webtest which are ...

Tools for website/web application load testing?

Before going into production, our client demands actual numbers of how many users our web application can handle. We have all kinds of features implemented including asset management (file uploads/downloads), documents import/export, various statistics, web-services etc. I guess we need tool which could emulate users form submission be...

Testing site performance with multiple browsers and versions

We're trying to document the performance difference of our site using different browsers. We use LoadRunner for load testing but I don't see a way to specify the "browser engine" it uses to run it's tests (perhaps it's using it's own?). In any event I'm not sure that LoadRunner is the right tool for this job but we own it so if we can ...

How to test if a SQL Server 2008 database can serve 200 concurent users

I have a SQL Server 2008 database in 3NF. I must check if the db can support many concurent users. Which is the best method ? Is there any free tool to do this ? Thank you very much. ...

Any suggestions for good automated web load testing tool?

What are some good automated tools for load testing (stress testing) web applications, that do not use record and replay of HTTP network packets? I am aware that there are numerous load testing tools on the market that record and replay HTTP network packets. But these are unsuitable for my purpose, because of this: The HTTP packet for...

how to find out how much application memory django process is (or will be) taking?

There are different "Application memory" options (like 80MB...200MB) in django-friendly hosting called webfaction and I'm confused deciding which one I should buy. Could someone please walk me through the ideas on how to figure out how much memory my project might require (excluding operating system, the main apache server and the datab...

Passing parameter to SOAP Web Service Requests Using Visual Studio Team System 2008

How can I pass in the current datetime parameter to a SOAP request? I know you can pass in parameters by adding a datasource to the web test project and reference it like this {{DataSource.TableName.FieldName}}. But I want to pass in current datetime parameter as a dynamic value (something like DateTime.Now). How do I go about doing thi...