No More 250 Users Limitation In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate As you know from Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate you can perform Load Testing as part of the software life cycle management. The only problem were when you want to perform Load Testing for more than 250 Users, in previous versions of Visual Studio Team System – There were no User Limitation, in 2010 you had to buy Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010 in order to increase the amount of load users (Each pack allow 1000 Users). - Visual...

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements On my previous posts I’ve talked about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released , now available for everyone and not just MSDN Subscribers. Service Pack 1 Beta - General availability download Service Pack 1 Beta – MS DN Subscribers only download In the last post I wrote about about Improvements comes with SP1 Beta for VS/TFS 2010 , but not all… from the Testers side there were also a lot improvements and here is some of them: For the full article read Amit Chatterjee's...

How To Add File Upload To Team System Web Test May times people asks me how can I Upload File with Web Test, The first thing is to record the Web Test using “Web Test Recorder” or Fiddler. But when running the Web Test its fails in the Upload section. Why? Before understanding the problem let get familiar with “File Upload Parameter”     Right click on the required request and select “Add File Upload Parameter” Then you can add the field name and the file location. So why file...

Running Unit Tests End With - “The specified module could not be found” “The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)” Some times your test relay on additional file that need to be in the same folder where Team System running the Test. Those files can’t be add into the GAC and you can’t copy them manually each time. So What Do Do? We need to use Deployment settings Deployment settings specify deployment location and any file to be deploy in the addition to the target...

Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System Test Edition provides a powerful platform to perform high volume load testing. It also provides high end flexibilities to write and utilize external plug-in for extended functionalities. "Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in" enables users to send the load test reports to one or more pre-configured email addresses automatically, once a VSTS Load Test is completed. This open-source load test plug-in...

This is Why Load Testing Is Important Not Just Before Release After a short conversation with one of my customers he told me that a month ago he invited a “Load Expert”  to perform load testing just before the company release the product. After the “Load Expert” exam the system he said every thing will be all right, 30 people is nothing I’m 99% sure nothing will happen. the customer asked him to perform the load test any way just to be sure… and the test passed just fine! Then I got a call from...

Functional Web Test - Part 1 Lots of people working with Team System Web Testing for creating a automated tests for Web Applications. Web Test in Team System works on Requests, when your perform an action in a Web Site you send a request to the server. So while running your Test Case Web Test Recorder knows how to collect and save all those requests and parameters, and then he can run them again. So What is the Problem? Web Test is not testing the functionality of your Web Site! For Example My Test...

Run Web Test Using MSTest Command-Line Failed I got an email asking me to help with msdn forum request . Q: I am trying to run a delegated WebTest from the command line using MStest. I have VSTS 2008 Suite Edition Installed. If I go to the command prompt from VSTS first (start-->all programs-->microsoft visual studio 2008-->visual studio tools-->visual studio 2008 comand prompt), then go to the directory where my Webtest resides, then run my Webtest with mstest, it runs. But if I go to...

Add Internet Explorer 8.0, FireFox 3.0 and Google Chrome To Web Test Browser List Visual Studio Team System 2008 gives as the ability to simulate our Web Test on specific Browser. We have variety of default browsers but not all! Today we have Internet Explorer 8.0, Firefox 3.0 and Google Chrome. Download below file and copy the new browsers to - \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Templates\LoadTest\Browsers Download - Internet Explorer 8.0, FireFox 3.0 and Google Chrome browsers...

How is the user load adjusted for a load test with a goal based load pattern? I found a great article wrote by Bill Barnett's talking about Goal Based Load using Team System. There are couple of great tips on how to config you load setting when using Goal Based Load and will help you to understand how Team System adjusted when a load test scenario uses a goal based load pattern. Enjoy. Thanks for Guy Kolbis for helping me to write this post better and decent.