Load Testing – Think Times

Load tests in Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers provide development teams with a way to see how an application acts under various sorts of user load. When running tests of a Web application, think times can be used to more realistically reflect the time users spend looking at a Web page before making their next request. This allows testers to simulate load more accurately.

Each load test has a set range of parameters called a scenario that determines the parameters for the load test. When think times are turned on, the load test will pause between Web requests just as a real user typically spends some time on a page before clicking another link.

To configure think times, create a new test load test in the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 and specify think time settings in the New Load Test Wizard.

Configuring think times for a load test