Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent

The new Visual Studio Team System expands significantly on Microsoft's demonstrated successes in delivering highly productive tools, by offering businesses tightly integrated and extensible lifecycle tools to increase the predictability of their software development process.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent provides supplemental test load for use with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers that enables organizations to simulate more users and more accurately test the performance of the Web applications and servers.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent generates supplemental test load for use with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers that enables organizations to simulate more users and more accurately test the performance of Web applications and servers.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent, a supplemental test load for use with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers, enables organizations to simulate more users and more accurately test the performance of Web applications and servers.Team Test Load Agent, which includes both agent and controller software, is highly extensible and customizable, giving testers an enormous amount of flexibility at a fraction of the cost of most competitive performance testing environments.

• More accurate simulation and performance testing of Web applications and servers.
• License that grants unlimited virtual user simulation per process (dual core processors included).
• Simulation of approximately 1,000 users per processor.
• Tight integration with Team Foundation Server, enabling test data to be incorporated into several analytic reports.

Team Test Load Agents were designed to run both functional tests and distributed load tests. It is easy to set up a consisting of a controller and set of test agents. The agents can then be used both for distributed load testing and for distributed functional testing.

• Scale out load generation
• Efficient load generation (1000 users from a typical machine running a typical web test)
• IP Switching for testing web farms
• Per CPU licensing (no vUser licensing)
• Performance counters collected on Load Agents and machines under test
• Data (stats and logs) rolled up in central SQL Server for analysis
• Load Test Monitor enables monitoring a test in progress

• Parallel distributed functional test execution
  • Run a large set of unit and functional tests at the same time
  • Agent selection enables matrix testing
  • Code Coverage
  • Better quality of service: test restart if test process dies
• Run tests from VS or Command Line
• Deployment of test code, reverse deployment of logs/test results
• Share test lab hardware with a team
  • Multiple clients can submit test runs
  • Controller queues runs and manages agents
• Platform for test tools
  • Extensible architecture supports third party test types
• Team Foundation Server integration
  • Reporting
  • Work Item tracking
  • Build Server
  • Source Code Control

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• Windows 2000 with SP4, Windows XP with SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (WOW), Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions (WOW), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista
• 3.4 GHz or faster processor
• 384 MB of RAM or more
• 1024x768 or higher-resolution display with 256 colors
• 2 GB of available hard-disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

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