Working with various clients in the industry I have realized that the biggest barrier in Load Testing & Performance Testing adoption is the high infrastructure and administration cost that comes with this phase of testing. I will present an approach using Visual Studio and Windows Azure to effectively abstract the administration cost of infrastructure management and lower the total cost of Load & Performance Testing. This should hopefully help you leverage Windows Azure for Performance Testing your applications.

1. Leveraging Azure for Performance Testing
Tarun Arora | @arora_tarun
http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora

2. Who am I?
• Tarun Arora
• Working with Avanade
• I specialize in
Application Lifecycle
solutions based on
Visual Studio ALM
• Working experience
with VSS, TFS 2005,
2008, 2010, 2012, SVN
and Clear case

4. Scenario 1 – Test Rig in the cloud!
Test Rig: Test Controller, Test Agent and
Load Test Database running on
Windows Azure Worker Role &
communicating among themselves.
Test
Agent(s)
Windows Azure endpoint to
enable communication between
visual studio & test rig
Test
Controller
Windows Azure
Endpoint
Developer workstation on premise
Dev workstation on Premise
running Visual Studio Ultimate

5. Scenario 1 - Ingredients
• Windows Live Id
• An active Windows Azure subscription
• Windows Azure Blob Storage
• WA worker role with WA end point
enabled & a deployment mechanism such
that installation & configuration of test controller,
sql server & test agent is automated
• Load Test Virtual User Pack
• On Premise developer workstation with Visual
Studio Ultimate

6. Test Rig – Logical set up
Windows Azure
Blob Storage
Test
Test
Agent(s)
Controller

7. Test Exec - Logical Implementation
Test
Agent
Test
Controller

8. Demo – Scenario 1

9. Scenario 2 – Multiple Test Rigs!
Test
Test Controller
Agent Test
Agent
Test
Controller
Dev workstation on Premise

10. Scenario 2 – Ingredients
• Deploy multiple test rigs using the reusable
solution from scenario 1
• Windows Azure Sync
• SQL Azure Database

11. Demo – Scenario 2

12. Resources
• MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windowsazure/hh674491.aspx
• Blob Storage Manager:
http://www.cerebrata.com/products/cloudstoragestudio/
• VS2010 Agents: http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=1334
• VS 2012 Agents: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-
us/downloads#agents
• SQL 2012 Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/SQLEXPCTAV2/enus
/default.aspx
• SQL 2008 R2 Express: http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=23650

13. Questions?
Keep in touch…
tarun.arora@avanade.com
http://twitter.com/arora_tarun
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunaroraonline
http://geekswithblogs.net/tarunarora