Load testing continued
Today I finished the first part of the performance test of our appliction. I've been using VS2005 to create the test set and this worked out very wel. We were able to identify performance problems and deadlock situations and we have resolved most of them.
To create the tests I've been using the recorded webtest and parameterized them so we could re-use them for different testing configurations. I was able to provide sufficient flexibility to the tests wtihout having to convert them to code. You can attach plug-ins to the load and webtest to add some code to the pre- and post-events. There are just a few coded classes mostly to retrieve data for the tests. The main reason I didn't convert the tests to code is that the treeview is easier to maintain by our testing department, who are not experienced .NET developers.
At the moment I'm still using a recent CTP version of VS2005 because this is a Team Suite edition. This versions allows me to both develop and create load-tests. I'm really not amused that when I switch to the released version I will not have the load test functionality anymore.