{"id":2273,"date":"2013-11-12T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2013\/11\/12\/load-testing-with-visual-studio-online-launching-commercial-preview\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:54:12","slug":"load-testing-with-visual-studio-online-launching-commercial-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/load-testing-with-visual-studio-online-launching-commercial-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Load testing with Visual Studio Online &#8211; Launching Commercial Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As announced at Visual Studio 2013 launch,&nbsp;today we are launching the Commercial Preview for cloud-based load testing using Visual Studio Online (previously called Team Foundation Service). To get started, download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. If you already&nbsp;have load tests that you run locally, you can run the same tests now using the service. If you haven&#8217;t used load testing before, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/learn\/load-testing\" target=\"_blank\">getting started guide<\/a> helps you quickly create&nbsp; one. Here are some links to get started and details on free usage limits and applicable charges during Commercial Preview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting Started links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=309297\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a> Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/get-started\/load-test-your-app-vs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #00749e;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';font-size: 9.5pt;text-decoration: none\" lang=\"EN\">Getting started guide<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/Visual-Studio\/Launch-2013\/qe103\">getting started video<\/a> for load <span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">testing using<\/span> Visual Studio Online.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=310093&amp;clcid=0x409\" target=\"_blank\">Troubleshooting guide<\/a> for FAQs and known issues.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">If you are facing any issues in getting started like VS freezing, kindly go through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2013\/11\/07\/known-issues-with-load-testing-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx\">post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/support-overview-vs\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio Online <\/a>Support for more queries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/TechEd\/NorthAmerica\/2013\/WAD-B304\" target=\"_blank\">Detailed demo and presentation<\/a> (link to Tech-Ed session recording)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How other customers have used the load testing with Visual Studio Online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Case study on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/casestudies\/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000003474\">Cloud based load testing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Load testing done&nbsp;for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2014\/01\/23\/using-visual-studio-online-to-load-test-the-norad-tracks-santa-website.aspx\">NORAD Tracks Santa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/edglas\/archive\/2013\/11\/27\/load-testing-visual-studio-online.aspx\">Load Testing Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free usage limits and applicable charges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All users of Visual Studio Online will get&nbsp;15,000 virtual user minutes free per Visual Studio Online account per month during the Commercial Preview period. Ex: If your load test consists of 250 concurrent virtual users, you will be able to run this test for a total of 60 minutes per month.<\/p>\n<p>To use more resources while executing your load test in cloud with&nbsp;Visual Studio Online&nbsp;i.e. more than 15,000 virtual user minutes per&nbsp;month, you will have to enable the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/get-started\/get-more-build-or-load-testing-vs\">billing<\/a> for your&nbsp;Visual Studio Online&nbsp;account. The rates for each virtual user minute is $ 0.002. But for the Commercial Preview, you will be charged only half the rate i.e. $0.001 for each virtual user minute.<\/p>\n<p>Our Early Adoption Program is complete and we thank all our early adopters for using the service and providing us great feedback during the Preview period of the service.&nbsp;The good news is that the&nbsp;Visual Studio Online&nbsp;accounts who joined before Nov 13, 2013 will continue getting the free limits for 90 more days starting today.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. Run load tests using the service. In case of any issues you can consult <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=310093&amp;clcid=0x409\" target=\"_blank\">Troubleshooting guide<\/a>&nbsp;or contact us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/support-overview-vs\">here<\/a> with your queries.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced at Visual Studio 2013 launch,&nbsp;today we are launching the Commercial Preview for cloud-based load testing using Visual Studio Online (previously called Team Foundation Service). To get started, download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. If you already&nbsp;have load tests that you run locally, you can run the same tests now using the service. 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