This highly recommended article by Josh Christie, Software Design Engineer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005—Web and Load Testing, targets testers and developers who want to learn some techniques for creating effective Web tests and for debugging them to ensure they run as intended.

For those of you who do not use the Microsoft tool, but are interested to learn about some common pitfalls in performance testing, this article addresses them all.

Josh also maintains an informative blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/joshch/