Performance Testing Microsoft® .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer) [Hardcover]

MICROSOFT ACE TEAM (Author)

Book Description

Series: Pro-Developer | Publication Date: November 2, 2002

The shift from stand-alone desktop applications to Web-enabled applications that accommodate hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users makes performance testing critical. Find out how to make your Microsoft® .NET-based applications perform as well as or better than traditional desktop applications with this book—written by the Microsoft team that tests and tunes hundreds of Web sites and Web-based applications. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the best available tools to plan and execute performance tests, configure profile tools, analyze performance data from Microsoft Internet Information Services, Microsoft ASP.NET, managed code, the SQL tier, and more. You’ll also learn how to use the testing methodology that Microsoft uses to stress test its own sites—some of the most popular, high-performance Web sites in the world.

Topics covered include:

• The testing methodology used on Microsoft.com, Xbox™.com, and other high-volume sites
• Planning the performance test
• Stress testing with Microsoft Application Center Test (ACT)
• Monitoring application performance with Performance Monitor
• Testing Web site security
• Application Network Analysis
• Analyzing the Web tier
• Analyzing managed code
• Analyzing the SQL tier
• Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

INCLUDED ON CD-ROM:

• A fully searchable electronic copy of the book
• Scripts that test the performance of IbuySpy.com

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (November 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735615381
• ISBN-13: 978-0735615380
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,233,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST PERFORMANCE TESTING BOOK AROUND, October 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Performance Testing Microsoft® .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer) (Hardcover)

I've recently had an opportunity to read Microsoft ACE Team's ... book "Performance Testing Microsoft .NET Web Applications" and would highly suggest this book to anyone who is looking to find performance bugs or increase performance on your teams web applications. The book is well written, gives real world examples, explains the most common bottlenecks in different areas and how to detect them (disks, network, web tier, sql tier, etc) and has a great section on how TCA works. ... I highly recommend this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Practical Advice on Load Testing using ACT, January 4, 2003

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ConsumerAdvocate (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance Testing Microsoft® .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer) (Hardcover)

This books contains information about using ACT that I couldn't find in other documentation. It also contains practical advice for how to structure load tests and how to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only but Best Book I have seen, December 4, 2003

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Tareq Muhammed (Cairo, Egypt) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance Testing Microsoft® .NET Web Applications (Pro-Developer) (Hardcover)

This is the First book that discuss testing web application using Microsoft ACT (which I find not the best testing tool, see Astra Load Test, it is perfect).
the book will divide the testing to phases and tiers, for example it dicusses how to optimized and find bottle neck in web tier (ASP.net Code), managed code and SQL server.

I didn't find anther book that discuss "Stress Testing ASP.net" application.

The will tell you how the found the "Memory Leakage" and they will tell you their exprience in finding problems with web sites.

If you r intented to "know" how to stress test you application, buy this book now