{"id":8804,"date":"2015-04-29T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2015\/04\/29\/load-test-enhancements-in-release-candidate-of-visual-studio-2015-enterprise-edition\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T00:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T08:17:21","slug":"load-test-enhancements-in-release-candidate-of-visual-studio-2015-enterprise-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/load-test-enhancements-in-release-candidate-of-visual-studio-2015-enterprise-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing day.\u00a0 Today we announced the release candidate to Visual Studio 2015..and it has a ton of new features.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already seen the news make sure and check out the following resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/somasegar\/archive\/2015\/04\/29\/introducing-visual-studio-code-visual-studio-2015-rc-application-insights-public-preview-and-net-core-for-linux-and-mac.aspx\">Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2015\/04\/29\/visual-studio-and-team-foundation-server-at-build-2015.aspx\">Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Series\/ConnectOn-Demand\" title=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Series\/ConnectOn-Demand\">https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Series\/ConnectOn-Demand<\/a> (37 videos on the new features!)<\/li>\n<li>You can get the entire list of what\u2019s new in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200626819\">Visual Studio 2015 RC Release Notes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200626829\">Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/vs2015-vs?CR_CC=200626819#Net\">.NET Framework 4.6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200626824\">Team Foundation Server 2015 RC<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200626818\">Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 RC<\/a> you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200626823\">use an Azure VM image<\/a> to try out these releases.<\/p>\n<p>I am just wrapping\u00a0 the last of the RC publishing and realized I hadn\u2019t done a post on my teams features-Load Test. Since November\u00a0 2012\u00a0 Cloud based Load Testing has released an amazing amount of value.\u00a0\u00a0 The ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/03\/23\/announcing-100-core-support-for-vso-cloud-load-testing-and-more.aspx\">scale to 100 cores (1000 cores when using parallel runs!!)<\/a> the ability to author and initiate load tests from a browser experience, the ability the run load tests up to the 72 hours (yes 72 hours!), the ability to collect performance data from production applications with Application Insights and today we are adding the number one customer requested feature:<\/p>\n<h2>**The ability to specify where your load test traffic is generated from.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 **<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/8865.image_thumb_27DEDB56.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"470\" height=\"447\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This feature is available from both Visual Studio Online (see above),\u00a0Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 &#8211;\u00a0Update 5 Release Candidate or Visual Studio Enterprise Edition 2015 release candidate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/0044.image_thumb_39BB6F23.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"470\" height=\"287\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-and don\u2019t worry if you forget to set it in the wizard\u2026.or don\u2019t use the wizard it can also be set as a property in the load Test run settings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/0066.image_thumb_757B07D6.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"485\" height=\"487\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/8484.image_thumb_3544EE5C.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"481\" height=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing day.\u00a0 Today we announced the release candidate to Visual Studio 2015..and it has a ton of new features.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t already seen the news make sure and check out the following resources: Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-testing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>What an amazing day.\u00a0 Today we announced the release candidate to Visual Studio 2015..and it has a ton of new features.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t already seen the news make sure and check out the following resources: Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}