Visual Studio 2010 Performance Testing

Performance Testing Overview

Performance testing comprises of the following key areas in order to minimise potential performance related risks within applications or systems.


                      

Product overview

Visual Studio 2010’s performance testing capability, provides an easy-to-use load and stress testing solution for optimizing the performance of business applications. Easy-to-create, accurate and realistic tests simulate hundreds to thousands users in a wide range of enterprise environments and platforms. The tests isolate issues and bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability. Intuitive diagnostic and analysis capabilities help resolve the issue quickly, reducing test-and-fix cycles, accelerating time-to-market, and supporting critical release decisions related to application performance. To further reduce costs and promote more testing by more people.

Key Benefits

Visual Studio 2010 offers the following benefits:

1) REDUCE COSTS, FEWER RISKS OF PERFORMANCE RELATED FAILURES

Visual Studio ensures the quality of business applications   by measuring their performance from the end-user   perspective - whilst monitoring system performance - in a   variety of scenarios under Dynamic load conditions, which   reduces costs and minimize performance risks by helping you:

• Accurately assess application performance, scalability and  reliability characteristics before deployment
• Create realistic, reproducible load test scenarios to cover  all critical use cases and requirements
• Isolate and resolve the root cause of performance problems in cross-platform systems quickly and easily
• Lower IT infrastructure costs through tuning and accurate capacity planning before deployment

2) EFFICIENT TEST CREATION AND TEST CYCLES

• Discover ease of use with the built-in step-by-step workflow wizards
• Create tests and executions with intuitive interface,
• Test a wide range of enterprise environments with versatile, sharable, multi-protocol virtual-user types
• Reuse test cases in different environments and scenarios without changing test scripts
• Analyze load tests in real time to avoid invalid test results that require time-intensive test-case reruns

3) REALISTIC, LIGHTWEIGHT AND ACCURATE SIMULATION

The innovative technology minimizes the hardware  resources needed per virtual user, enabling more and  larger load tests. Within a single load test, virtual users  working with different Internet, middleware and database  protocols - across varied computing environments.

4) COMPETITIVE PRICING MODEL

 The new pricing model from Microsoft is competitive, easier  to understand and manage.