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According to Ed Glass from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test Team posted about new VSTT Quick Reference Guide 1.0 . According to Ed: “This is a comprehensive collection of technical information on VSTT –- 83 pages of information!!! Many questions you may have on how stuff works in web, load, and unit test are answered in this doc. This doc is a must have for anyone working in VSTT. ” You can download it here . var dzone_url = 'http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/kolbis/archive/2009/03/31/what...
Web Tests supports Data Driven capabilities. Data Driven Web Tests are Web Tests that are bind to a data source in order to use different data throughout the test execution. An Example You might record a web test that validates the login process. When you record it, the web test recorder will record the username and password you entered during the recordings. This will allow you to test your application against only a single user - the one that you recorded. However, you would probably want to validate...
Visual Studio 2008 introduces a new option called "Extract Web Test" within the Web Test context menu. This is a cool feature that allows you to extract requests or transactions from a web test and create a new web test. I love this feature mainly because it can save us a lot of time and allow you to modular your tests...Let me explain. One of the key features we need to strive for is to modular our automated tests. We want to be able to reuse modules or web tests within different tests...
Some Background... I have a customer that uses Microsoft Load Test and Web Test tools in order to validate the performance for his web application. Web Tests and Load Tests get executed against each and every new build. A new build is published to a the web server (either an IIS or Tomcat) under the application name + the build number, for example: "rcm41020" So, the application name is rcm and the build is 41020. The Problem For each web test that we execute we need to change in the URL...
Load test reports on Codeplex had been updated. About The Project This project contains a set of stored procedures and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports for reporting on a load test result. It also contains an ASP.NET app that enables you to easily delete runs from the database and set the analysis comment on runs. So, what is the update? There are two major updates: This version includes a web application that can help manage load test runs. This also leverages the reports from the previous...
For those of you who tried the 2005 WebTest recorder know that there were several issues about it that made working with it hard, for example Dynamic Parameters Discovery and AJAX based Recording. If you wanted to record AJAX based application you had to use a supporting tool such as Fiddler , which is a debugging proxy that integrates with VS WebTest. There were several issues with it such as HTTPS support and Extraction Rules support that made it a bit difficult to use. In VS 2008, Microsoft fixed...
In the following cast, I will be talking about the transactions for both unit tests and web tests. Transactions specifies one or more steps that are grouped together, in the web test context those steps are a bunch of URLs, where in unit test it is a bunch of code that is marked as a group. So, why do we need it? I will try and explain it using an example. Lets say that you have a really complicated scenario that must be executed within a unit test. The scenario requires a long initialization and...
Last week Microsoft and NESS organized a three days extreme learning. I was one of the lecturers and I talked about Unit testing, TDD, Load testing, Performance testing, Web testing in VSTS for Developers and Testers. For all of you who missed it or just want to take a look at it, you can download it from here . If you have any feedback about the lectures, let me know :-)
In the next version of team system (Orcas), new features and new enhancements to web tests and load tests will be introduced. Ed Glas posted new screen shots for those features. You can take a look at them here .
Last month I started the first of its kind, Visual Studio Team System for Testers course. I attached the entire syllabus to this post. We are planning on opening a new course next month, so keep tune for more details in the future. You can contact me for any other details at: guyk@srl.co.il .
Today I got an email from a college blogger Adlai Maschiach . He asked me to write a post about the VSTS Guidance on CodePlex. SRLTeam has published couple of months ago a post about it, however it was recently updated. Here is a list of all the new entries that have been added to the guidance. The guidance contains useful information about team system related issues. You can find white papers, videos, links and much more. I encourage you all to check it and contribute as possible ;)
By default all requests inside a web test will be executed no matter of the results. In other words, if you got 2 requests inside your web test and the first request fails, the web test will continue to the second request and will execute it. Sometimes, we do not want to continue running the following requests upon a failure. To do so, we can choose to code our web test or to create a WebTestRequestPlugIn. Coded web tests are to be avoided as possible and there are only three cases where I would...
Here is a question that I have been asked a lot. "How can you simulate a scenario where a user logon once to the web site and performs several tests?" Let me explain the problem. If your web site uses authentication such as Form authentication, the user must logon to the site before he can perform any actions. That means that any test you create will have to logon to the site before performing the actual test case. The issue about it is that for each test case you create, you continue testing the...
Previously I wrote some posts for my company's blog here at Microsoft blogs. Here are couples of my favorite posts: How to configure your load test environment Wrap your NUnit unit test with VS Generic test I hope you'll agree :)
Radview , a small company, has just declared that they adopted an open source approach! The software comes in two versions, the standard and the professional. For the professional that is targeted big organizations, you will have to pay :( because the open source is not good enough. The product includes support for HTTP/S, WAP, AJAX, ActiveX, Java, Web services and more. You can find the key features list here . You can download it here . In the following week I will examine the tool and publish...
