Cloud-powered Load Testing with Team Foundation ServiceAnkit SarafProgram Manager(@vauntgarde)2-346

• Microsoft India Development Center

• 5 years @ Microsoft• Testing and Agile• Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and

2013• Product owner for Cloud

powered load testing

About me

BTW: That’s me cycling down the Himalayas, a descend of 8000 feet

• Provision machines: Painful and Slow

• Cost: High• Utilization: Low

Top challenges with load testing …

Agenda • Load Testing using Visual Studio - 101• Introducing Cloud-powered Load Testing• Architecture/Early Adopters/Next steps• Q & A

Load Testing using Visual Studio - 101

Performance & Load Testing• Performance: How is my application’s

behavior?• Load: How will my application behave in

Production?• Stress: Can my application handle a lot of

users?• Scale/Capacity: How many servers do I need?

Demo: Performance and Load Testing using Visual Studio

Demo re-cap0. Configure test environment1. Author tests – web tests, load tests2. Run tests 3. Analyze results4. Fix performance/scale problems

Introducing Cloud-powered Load Testing

Demo: Run load tests using Team Foundation Service

Demo re-cap0. Configure test environment1. Author tests – web tests, load tests2. Run tests 3. Analyze results4. Fix performance/scale problems

Architecture/Early Adopters/Next steps

Architecture

Visual Studio

Load Test Web Service

Test Agent Pool - Dynamic

Results database

Worker

Azure Blobs

Azure Tables

Early Adopters• Florida state election commission (2011 app on

Azure) - 70 million virtual user minutes

• 12 internal teams, since last 7 months - Including Team Foundation Service and Skype

• 10 external customers, since last 2 months

Next steps• Try it out, with Visual Studio 2013 Preview

Provide us feedback

• Free to try/use during PreviewLimits on usage per month (15000 virtual user minutes)

• Join the early adopter program - http://aka.ms/loadtfs

More usage and work closely with product team

• Provision machines: Painful and Slow

• Cost: High• Utilization: Low

Top challenges with load testing …

• Provision machines: Super-easy

• Cost: Pay only for usage• Utilization: On-demand

Challenges no more …

Saraf.Ankit@microsoft.com@vauntgarde

Q n A

• http://aka.ms/loadtfs

• http://tfs.visualstudio.com/

• http://www.visualstudio.com

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