VS2010 Beta 1 – What’s New For Tester?

VS2010 Beta 1 – What’s New For Tester?

Visual Studio 2010 is coming with many great improvements:

Branching and looping in web test – No need to generate coded web test to add logic.

And 64bit support for load testing!

Here is the full log by Ed Glas:

Web Test

• Recorder plug-ins for custom correlation extensibility

• These features are about making it easier to do correlation:

– Find in playback
– View recording log in playback
– Jump to request from playback
– Add extraction rule from playback

• Looping and branching in web test

• New dialog for editing think times, goals, reporting string across all requests

• Extensibility point in playback for adding tabs and top-level add-ins

• New validation and extraction rules for inner text and select tags

 

Load Test

• Analysis Improvements

– Log entire test result on test failure or log entire result every n requests
– Remote profiler integration
– Sys Info data collection
– Extensible data collectors to support more platforms
– Load test virtual user activity visualization

• Reporting

– Run to run perf reports in Microsoft Excel
– New warehouse perf report (post-beta1)

• Performance testing

– Run automated UI tests as performance tests
– True network emulation

• New properties on scenarios

– Delay start
– Iteration count

• Command line agent setup

• 64 bit test execution