Load Testing with windows Azure

I started about a year ago delving into a project where I was using Azure to test an Azure web site and determine the loads and how much load a particular instance could take and the value of how we planned to grow based on those loads. It was interesting and had no support. I got a lot of what I was doing from a microsoft blog post found here. His insight was a great concept, from there I started to play with the different variables and understand why it was done as it was.

I later did a similar project where I needed to test a non-azure web site but found that the tests were hitting a bandwidth capacity internally that was jeapordizing the tests. So I moved the agents to Azure and found the solution to not only work well, but was very scalable, and cost effective.

So after a year of using it, I thought I would share my findings and this knowledge with the community, and thus my first talk on Load testing and using Azure in your test rig will be my topic tonight at Chicago .NET User Group.

Like all talks I wanted to provide my demo materials and power point for reference. See below.

Power Point Presentation (1.2 MB)

Azure Agent (Worker Role Project) ( 480 KB )