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Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure

Editors Note: While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists.  In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL Performance Guru. David has since left Microsoft but continue his cutting edge work with SQL Server and Application Tuning.  Thanks for the ...

Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test

  ** Visual Studio Load Testing has always made it easy to create Load Tests. Now with Visual Studio Online it is also easy to verify the performance capacity of your software of 1,000s of users external to your data centers using the Cloud and Microsoft Azure. It has been noted that Visual Studio Load Testing is widely used inside of ...

Load Testing with Visual Studio Online

Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. With cloud-based load testing it’s easy: Watch a short video about ...

Get Application Performance Counters of your choice during load runs with Visual Studio Online

Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and diagnostics data of your application which dramatically decreases the discovery and resolution of any issues discovered later. This article will...

Error importing the result file after a load test run

Been working with the fine folks at the Game Studios labs and they just recently ran to the following error when they finish a load test run: “There was an error importing the result file after a load test run.”   (image)   The cause in their case was their Load Test repository had filled up.  In Visual Studio 2013 we ...

Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights at the Software Developer Network Event 6-6 Netherlands

If you happen to be in the Netherlands June 6th and not fishing for Chinook off the coast of Washington (where I plan on being) make sure and check out the Software Developer Network Conference at the Achmea Conference Center in beautiful Zeist.  Visual Studio Cloud Load Testing and Application InsightsApplication Insights solves the age ...