Describe how we can make and run load tests using Visual Studio 2013 and Azure

1. Load Tests using
Visual Studio 2013 and
cloud
Radu Vunvulea
vunvulear@gmail.com
http://vunvulearadu.blogspot.com

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Who am I?

3. Agenda

5. • The primary goal of load testing is to define the
maximum amount of work a system can handle
without performance slipping significantly
What is Load Testing?

6. • The primary goal of load testing is to define the
maximum amount of work a system can handle
without performance slipping significantly
What about Stress Testing?
What is Load Testing?

7. • The primary goal of load testing is to define the
maximum amount of work a system can handle
without performance slipping significantly
• The process of increasing the load beyond its
known capacity and seeing how that load affects
the application is sometimes called stress testing
What is Load Testing?

8. Load Test !?= Stress Test

9. Tools on the market

10. • Provision of machines (hardware)
• Setup of machines (licensing)
• Cost is very high
• Cloud is an option but setup can be painful
• Time wasted during deploy
Challenges

11. • Provision of machines (hardware)
• Setup of machines (licensing)
• Cost is very high
• Cloud is an option but setup can be painful
• Time wasted during deploy
• Big companies are slow when you need
resources
• Small companies don’t afford this resources
Challenges

12. App Server(s)
Top Challenge: Provisioning
Machines needed for Load Test

15. Architecture
Visual Studio
Load Test
Web Service
Worker
Azure Blobs
Azure Tables
Test Agent Pool - Dynamic
Results
database

16. • Visual Studio 2013
• An account on Team Foundation Service
What we need?

17. DEMO

18. • Record UI tests
• Test http(s) or non-http(s) endpoints
• Test any kind of endpoint
• Different mechanism and way to define and run
load tests
• Simulate different behaviors and environments
• Get performance counters not only from clients
but also from backend
What is supported?

19. COST = NOT DEFINED
(we are in preview)

20. Question
Answers

21. THE END
Radu Vunvulea
vunvulear@gmail.com
http://vunvulearadu.blogspot.com