Azure Load Testing

The value of load testing tools lies in the metrics they provide for making business decisions, and Azure Load Testing offers a dashboard with client-side metrics for this purpose. However, it has much to be desired as an Enterprise solution, according to this performance engineer.

Air Date: 01/11/2022 8:00 a.m. EST

Video Insights Into Azure Load Testing

💡 The value of any load testing tool is the metrics that it provides so that you can make business decisions based on it.
📊 The dashboard metrics in Azure Load Testing include client-side metrics like number of virtual users, response time, successful errors, and requests per second.

💭 “I’m still confused as to why Microsoft would only focus on the persona of the developer when they have products that need to be tested at various stages.”

Is this a revolutionary new product for performance engineers? Is it a replacement for the now deprecated Visual Studio Team Edition with Load Testing (VSTS)?

Microsoft Introduces Azure Load Testing – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-load-testing-optimize-app-performance-at-scale/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/overview-what-is-azure-load-testing?wt.mc_id=loadtesting_ablogannounce1_blog_azuremktg

“Azure Load Testing Preview is a fully managed load testing service that enables you to generate high-scale load. The service will simulate traffic for your applications, regardless of where they’re hosted. Developers, testers, and quality assurance (QA) engineers can use it to optimize application performance, scalability, or capacity.

You can create a load test by using existing test scripts, based on Apache JMeter, a popular open-source load and performance tool. For Azure-based applications, detailed resource metrics help you identify performance bottlenecks. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows allow you to automate regression testing.”

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/quickstart-create-and-run-load-test?wt.mc_id=loadtesting_ablogannounce1_blog_azuremktg

My Opinion

A lackluster effort that falls very short of a software company as large and powerful as Microsoft. They could OWN the space if they wanted. Microsoft has the in-house expertise, and financial capabilities to take over. They could even acquire and improve an existing tool and decimate all competition. The tunnel vision on the developer role is shortsighted, and shows they aren’t serious about performance in the greater sense of the word – only on the left shifted world of 50 virtual users pounding a feature for 10 minutes. It’s pretty sad, actually.

Almost every major tool vendor supports JMeter scripts running as Virtual Users, and has the cloud architecture to scale it up to millions of users. Many of these already run on all of the major Cloud vendors as well, including Azure. I guess I expected more from Microsoft.

Other offerings to look at:

Blazemeter – https://www.blazemeter.com/

Redline 13 –https://www.redline13.com/

And don’t forget, other mainline commercial vendors support JMeter scripts in addition to their own:

https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm/posts/how-to-run-jmeter-test-in-loadrunner-performance-center-12-55

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