Introduction With the launch of Visual Studio .NET many companies are embracing the new technology and already developing XML web services. It’s high time the software testing community engaged the .NET technology by acquiring the skills and resources necessary to test these fast emerging web applications. Testing is essential to achieving the goal of scalable, [...]

Introduction This article aims to give an introduction to the challenges in testing web services. It is aimed at developers, testers, and project managers who do not have detailed technical knowledge about web services or the way they work. This article puts particular emphasis on load testing web services. What are web services? In the [...]

Third in a series on Visual Studio setup This article explains how to install a new version of your setup project using the Windows Installer update mechanism. Introduction When you need to build a new version of your setup project or ship fixes to it, it’s tempting to rebuild the project and try to install [...]