I want to do load testing inside Visual Studio Professional 2012. According to the tutorial here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms182551.aspx, under File > Add > New Project > Installed Templates > Visual C# > Test
there should be a project template called Web Performance and Load Test Project
.
But there is none in my tool. VS only presents Unit Test as here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103580364/temp/pordiva000005.jpg
I searched inside online templates the keyword "performance" but there was no such a template again:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103580364/temp/pordiva000006.jpg
How can I find and install that project template called Web Performance and Load Test Project
?
I believe you cannot do that. Web performance and load tests are only available within Visual Studio Ultimate edition. See http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/compare
In summary, there are five version of Visual Studio
- Express, the free version. Limited in functionality. Does not support extensions.
- Professional, has most of the development tools.
- Premium, adds Coded UI testing
Ultimate, adds web performance and load testing.
Test professional, has some test tools but no development tools.
In addition to @AdrianHHH answer:
Running Visual Studio 2015 you will find it in the renamed Enterprise Edition.
VS2015 reduces to three versions:
- Visual Studio Community Free, fully-featured IDE for students,
open-source and individual developers
- Visual Studio Professional Professional developer tools, services,
and subscription benefits for small teams
- Visual Studio Enterprise End-to-end solution to meet demanding
quality and scale needs of teams of all sizes
Basic info at Visual Studio 2015 pricing
In detail at Visual Studio 2015 Licensing White Paper