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Performance Testing Guidance Project

Project Overview

The purpose of the Performance Testing Guidance project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and doing performance testing with VS 2005. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, ACE, patterns & practices, Premier, and VSTS team members. See Module List for a list of the candidate guidance modules being created.

Usage Scenarios

* Improve efficiency and effectiveness of your performance testing
* Learn expert techniques performance testing
* Apply expert techniques for performance testing using Visual Studio.NET 2005

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How Tos

These are patterns & practices produced performance testing How Tos. You get to see them here first, before their final destination on MSDN. These How Tos represent current recommended practices. Use the how tos to supplement product documentation. Using the How Tos below, you can drill deeper into performance testing related areas, such as user experience modeling.

Getting Started - Create a "hello world" perf test in VS.NET 2005

* How To: Step Through Creating a Load Test in VS.NET 2005

Performance Testing

* How To: Conduct Performance Testing
* How To: Conduct Performance Testing with Automated Load Testing Tools

Load Testing

* How To: Load Test a Web Application
* How To: Load Test Web Applications Using VS.NET 2005
* How To: Control the Number of Load Test Iterations in VS 2005

Stress Testing

*How To: Stress Test Web Applications

Capacity

* How To: Capacity Plan for Web Applications Using Transaction Cost Analysis
* How To: Capacity Plan for Web Applications Using Predictive Analysis

Tuning

* How To: Tune Performance of Web Applications

User Experience Modeling

* How To: Model the User Experience from Web Server Logs
* How To: Use IIS Log Files In Performance Testing

Writing Test Cases

* How To: Correlate Dynamic Data in a Load Test Transaction
* How To: Write Coded Web Tests

Reporting

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Guidance Index

* How Tos

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Glossary

* Glossary

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Project Info

This is the minimal project information regarding schedule and progress.

Release Rhythm

* Weekly releases - drafts are published to Channel9 each week.

Schedule

* Perf Testing Guidance Schedule

Status

* Perf Testing Daily Status

Queue View

* Queue View

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Team

* J.D. Meier
* Carlos Farre
* Prashant Bansode
* Scott Barber
* Larry Brader
* Edmund Wong
* Dennis Rea
* Clint Huffman
* Mark Tomlinson

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Team Pages

These are pages the team uses for sharing research, teams, ... etc.
* Data Points
* Module List
* Problem List
* Processes and Techniques
* Table of Contents
* Terms and Concepts

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