ASP.NET Stress Testing

Question

Is there a way to test an application where you simulate a hundred different clients connecting to a IIS server and asking the same data? At the customer where our project i

Answer 1

After surveying a lot of open source and paid tools, I found the most success with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite Test Edition (soon to be part of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate). It has strong stress testing functionality. Microsoft's free application for stress-testing, WCAT is underpowered and buggy, but the full blown Test Edition goes up against products like LoadRunner but is easier to use, better-integrated with VS/ASP.NET and for much less money per virtual user.