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Performance Testing 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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Index

* How To: Capacity Plan for Web Applications Using Transaction Cost Analysis
* How To: Capacity Plan for Web Applications Using Predictive Analysis
* How To: Conduct Performance Testing
* How To: Control the Number of Load Test Iterations in VS 2005
* How To: Correlate Dynamic Data in a Load Test Transaction
* How To: Create a Load Test Using Visual Studio Team System 2005
* How To: Identify a Disk Performance Bottleneck Using the Microsoft Server Performance Advisor (SPA) Tool
* How To: Identify Performance Testing Objectives
* How To: Load Test a Web Application
* How To: Model the User Experience from Web Server Logs
* How To: Tune Performance of Web Applications
* How To: Use IIS Log Files In Performance Testing

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