Appendix B. Getting Started with Application Center Test
Application Center Test (ACT) is a powerful new tool that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Edition (Developer and Architect). You use it to create and run performance tests against Web applications. Those of you who are familiar with the history of Microsoft performance tools might have encountered the Web Application Stress (WAS) tool. ACT is a follow-up product to WAS. The WAS tool was useful because it allowed a user to record a test scenario by simply navigating a Web site. This made it possible to create and run simple performance tests. But WAS tended to fall short when you needed more advanced testing behavior. ACT continues in the tradition of making test creation ...
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