HOW TO DO PERORMANCE TESTING

This is one of the most comprehensive and clearest articles:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnduwon/html/d5wast_2.asp

 

Another very clear article is:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/webstress/webstress.htm

 

This is a great article:

http://www.vbxml.com/conference/wrox/2000_vegas/text/matto_stress.pdf

http://www.vbxml.com/conference/wrox/2000_vegas/Powerpoints/matto_stress.pdf

 

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kmag00/html/StressTool.asp

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnserv/html/server092799.asp

 

 

 

Webtool’s Homepage:    http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com (It has a great knowledge base which is easy to overlook)

Webtool alias:               webtool@microsoft.com

 

 

Here is an interesting article:

http://www.decisionz.com/document/VBAUG19990630All.htm

 

 

 

Some best bets:

This is a really good checklist by an experience performance tester, J.D. Meier

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnserv/html/server03272000.asp

 

25 Tips from George Reilly – talks about Use Server.Transfer Instead of Response.Redirect Whenever Possible

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/en-us/dnasp/html/ASPtips.asp

 

Use ordinals to reference record sets. This looks promising.

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/120299-1.shtml

 

This site summarizes a lot of tips

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/asp_sql_server.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEB APPLCIATION STRESS TOOL

 

Here are some resources for Web Application Stress:

 

For in-depth information on Web Application Stress, read chapters 6 and 7 of the following book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861004478/ref%3Drm%5Fitem/107-1942150-7253306

 

For featured articles on Web Application Stress and how to use it, see the following:

 

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/webstress/webstress.htm

 

http://www.asptoday.com/articles/20000420.htm

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/d5wast_2.htm

 

For articles that describe Microsoft's approach to performance testing web applications:

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/d5dplyover.htm

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/d5wast_2.htm

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/iis/tencom.asp

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/sampleapp04202000.asp

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/asp/asptips.asp

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/d5casestudy.htm

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/d5smp.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some simpler performance Tips

Use components

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/000106.htm

 

Convert the ASP into an Active X server side component

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/asp_performance.html

            Related Article

            http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/activex_for_asp.html

 

http://www.vb2themax.com/Item.asp?PageID=TipBank&ID=264

 

http://www.xtremewebdevelopment.com/article.asp?id=3

If you have more than 100 lines of ASP code try to write it in a COM Object. Compiled COM objects run faster than interpreted code. Compiled COM Objects allow you to use Early Binding, which is a more efficient means of invoking COM objects than the Late Binding which is used in script.

 

http://accesshelp.net/survival/responseasp.asp

 

 

 

XML

This might be useful

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/jg_xml_performance.asp

 

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/jb_openxml.asp