MSTest - Run “LoadTests” and Write Results to SQL Server Database

Question

If you want to configure your VS \"Load Tests\" to write the results to a database server, you use the following instructions.

If you want to run your \"Load Tests\"

Answer 1

Finally figured this out. Basically I used several tools to check what files were being modified when I changed the connection string, the results made it obvious:

privateregistry.bin

Once I found this it was pretty obvious that VS was maintaining it's own little registry hive. It's clearly stated in this post, so I opened it in the way described in the article and found the connection string:

This indicated that:

"The SQL Connection String is NOT stored in the loadtest files. The setting seems to be PC specific so I had to change it on the build server - in one loadtest file (address.loadtest) as shown, then all the other loadtests adopt the same connection string."

So that's basically what I did, I logged into each build server and configured them so that they write all there results to my database rather than locally.

Load tests are clearly not designed to make this process easy, I don't think many people have attempted to do what I've done. All the articles just tell you to use their cloud service. I'm pretty sure that only covers web tests. If your using load testing to test unit tests you pretty much out of luck(without this work around). I really hope this gets official support in the future, it would be really nice to both run/view all types of load tests from TFS. For now though I'm going to have to keep using this work around.