How to load test a WinForms application?

I'm trying 开发者_开发问答to figure out the best way to load test a Windows Forms application, that hits a server and gets a response. I need to load test it for multiple users and I'm not sure if the load testing tools inside visual studio 2010 will work.

Any advice is appreciated.

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Here's something you can try..

• In a test application, write a method A that encapsulates the code that makes call to the server, and receives the response.
• In the same application, write a method B that create multiple threads. Each thread would execute method A.
• Make sure to calculate how much time it takes to finish work on each thread.
• Increase the number of threads to simulate more load.

Moving the code that makes the call to the server to method A without the rest of the application should make repeating the test much easier and ease the load on the client machine performing the test.

Here's sample code of a similar idea simulating load test of accessing a database C# Stress Test - Simulate multiple access to a given shared resource

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I don't have any experience with it, but if you have VS2010 ultimate try out Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTestFramework:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms243153.aspx

If you need some additional direction, here is a sample of the framework in use: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/edglas/archive/2006/02/06/525614.aspx

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Well, my first instinct is to create a bunch of virtual machines and run a whole bunch of your programs at once. Possibly bouncing the ip's around a little bit(I dont know how large scale this needs to be).

It might be a little rough but it would work if you simply keep adding a couple connections at a time. Obviously this wont work if you need thousands open at once. But I hope this helps a little.

-Kenetik