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Load testing Applications behind Firewall using Cloud-based Load Testing Service

March 9, 2015 Mar 9, 2015 03/9/15
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. It is often observed that application is deployed in the internal environment behind the firewall before it is deployed to production or you have an application that is deployed internally and accessible on your ...

Creating unit test method stubs with “Create Unit Tests”

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15
Importer
In Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 we are introducing the "Create Unit Tests" feature that provides the ability to create unit test method stubs. The feature allows easy configuration of a test project, and the test class and the test method stub therein. It is conveniently available as a context menu item, and can be invoked on product code at the ...

Initiate a Load Test from Hosted Build work-around

March 4, 2015 Mar 4, 2015 03/4/15
Willy-P. Schaub
  Please note there are now much easier ways of doing this.  Please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/11/23/scheduling-load-test-execution.aspx                                                         We are gathered this week in a “Hackfest”, defined as a ...

Using advanced diagnostics to debug issues in Cloud Load Test.

February 5, 2015 Feb 5, 2015 02/5/15
Prashasti Gupta
Cloud Load Testing can be used for performance and load testing of your application by generating load from Azure. If you are new to Cloud Load Testing then the following links will help you: It is often observed that debugging on cloud is a little difficult as the machines are not directly accessible to the user. It is not possible to...

Using Setup and Cleanup Script in Cloud Load Test

January 12, 2015 Jan 12, 2015 01/12/15
Bhavesh Bhati
Performance and load testing is a very important part of the Application Lifecycle. You’d want to do this at least every time prior to deploying the latest changes to production. To determine how well your software responds to various levels of usage, a load test allows users to model the expected usage of a software by simulating multiple ...

Smart Unit Tests – a mental model

December 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014 12/11/14
Pratap Lakshman
[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] Our previous post introduced Smart Unit Tests. Please read that first if you have not already done so. Now let us continue. How is “Smart Unit Tests” able to generate a compact test suite with high ...

Getting started with Cloud-based Load Test REST APIs

December 4, 2014 Dec 4, 2014 12/4/14
Charles Sterling
REST API’s are pretty cool, enabling you to do things like write your own custom reports, write your own interfaces and of course integrating load tests into your build.  Looking at the sample referenced with our REST API documentation; at 400 lines to demonstrate 4 API’s I must admit I found it pretty daunting so I thought I would see ...

Avoiding Visual Studio Fakes Build break

November 23, 2014 Nov 23, 2014 11/23/14
Ajay Arora
If you are using Visual Studio Fakes in your Unit Testing, and you created your test project from any of the below versions of Visual Studio, then if you upgrade to Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, you may start hitting build errors around Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.dll.Visual Studio 2012Visual Studio 2013 Update1Visual Studio 2013 ...

Introducing Smart Unit Tests

November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14
Pratap Lakshman
[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature, I urge you to do so; this feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. But there is much more...