Binding a Cloud Load Test to a data source
May 14, 2014Charles Sterling
Summary
This post details how to bind a Web Performance Test to a data source (CSV or XML) for use in Cloud Load Tests within Visual Studio Ultimate. It covers creating the web test, cleaning up recordings, adding and configuring data sources, data binding parameters, setting run counts in local.testsettings, and creating and running a load test, specifically highlighting the 'Run Test using Visual Studio Online' option for cloud execution. Caveats regarding data source traversal settings in cloud tests are noted.
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