Load-testing asp.net site (postbacks/viewstate)

Question

What is the best way to load-test an application that relies heavily on posts with viewstate (same posts can't be sent twice, so a simple record / replay won't do)?

Can I generate the viewstate to be used in in the posts?

Answer 1

The best (but expensive) solution is to use Visual Studio Team Test Edition . It allows you to create and run load tests using .Net code . It is very robust and allows you to run the tests on a farm of servers and collect all of the performance metrics, etc.