Friday, 27 March 2009

Dev Week 2009

Just finished DevWeek 2009

It's been another great week. Spent time with people I haven't seen for a while. I've enjoyed giving the talks and hope you have enjoyed listening to them. I always love spending time hanging out the speakers, there are so many really smart people there. Just spent a day with Tim Ewald - it always blows me away how good a presenter Tim is and how much he knows, this time on Ruby and Rails.

Hopefully I'll be back for Software Architect in Sept/Oct and at DevWeek next year.

Posted by kevin at 6:10 PM in Net

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Monday, 16 March 2009

VSTS Load/Web Testing and Browser Definitions

When you add a VSTS load test or when you configure a web test you can specify the browser(s) to use for the test. The data for each type of browser is held in files with a .browser extension in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Templates\LoadTest\Browsers directory.

You can add your own browsers to this list by copying and renaming one of these files and changing the details within the file. The files are XML so this is easy to do, they look something like this

<Browser Name="Netscape 6.0">
  <Headers>
    <Header Name="User-Agent" Value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en; rv:1.0) Netscape/6.0" />
    <Header Name="Accept" Value="image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*" />
    <Header Name="Accept-Language" Value="{{$IEAcceptLanguage}}" />
    <Header Name="Accept-Encoding" Value="GZIP" />
  </Headers>
</Browser>

Remember to change the Name attribute on the Browser element otherwise you'll see the same browser listed twice inside visual studio.

After making the changes you will need to re-start Visual Studio to see your new browser listed.

Posted by kevin at 7:08 AM in Net

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