{"id":313,"date":"2014-10-29T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2014\/10\/29\/super-simple-load-test-trial-experience\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:27:57","slug":"super-simple-load-test-trial-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/super-simple-load-test-trial-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Super simple load test trial experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>***UPDATE 10\/29\/2014 12:30PM EDT*** &#8211; When I wrote this, I wasn&#8217;t aware that it is only available to VS Online customers licensed with an MSDN Ultimate subscription.\u00a0 We&#8217;re having a conversation about whether or not we want to leave it that way but that&#8217;s the status for now.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to your account home page on any VS Online account, you\u2019ll see a new top level tab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/3808.image_thumb_353E98E6.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15677\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/3808.image_thumb_353E98E6.png\" alt=\"Image 3808 image thumb 353E98E6\" width=\"484\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/3808.image_thumb_353E98E6.png 484w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/3808.image_thumb_353E98E6-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you click on it you\u2019ll get a page that allows you to run a very simple load test.\u00a0 You specify an url and some basic settings for how many users you want to simulate, how long you want the test to run, how fast you want your users clicking and what browser mix you want.\u00a0 Then just click \u201cTest now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/0310.image_thumb_3FFE80EC.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15678\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/0310.image_thumb_3FFE80EC.png\" alt=\"Image 0310 image thumb 3FFE80EC\" width=\"724\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/0310.image_thumb_3FFE80EC.png 724w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/0310.image_thumb_3FFE80EC-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will then go off an acquire load test agents from our pool, configure the test and run it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/1346.image_thumb_66CF27DD.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15679\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/1346.image_thumb_66CF27DD.png\" alt=\"Image 1346 image thumb 66CF27DD\" width=\"724\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/1346.image_thumb_66CF27DD.png 724w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/1346.image_thumb_66CF27DD-300x73.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once it\u2019s done, it will digest all of the results and give you a simple analysis of your load test showing the average response time, # of requests per second and any errors encountered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/2604.image_thumb_3CEEB3A8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15681\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/2604.image_thumb_3CEEB3A8.png\" alt=\"Image 2604 image thumb 3CEEB3A8\" width=\"724\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/2604.image_thumb_3CEEB3A8.png 724w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/10\/2604.image_thumb_3CEEB3A8-300x127.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to do \u201creal\u201d load testing you\u2019ll need Visual Studio Ultimate to create complex load tests involving many pages and many steps per page, etc.\u00a0 You also get access to a much more detailed analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago. ***UPDATE 10\/29\/2014 12:30PM EDT*** &#8211; When I wrote this, I wasn&#8217;t aware that it is only available to VS Online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago. ***UPDATE 10\/29\/2014 12:30PM EDT*** &#8211; When I wrote this, I wasn&#8217;t aware that it is only available to VS Online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}