Azure Load Testing Series - Create and run a load test

About this blog

Hey folks!, We have already seen a brief about a high level overview of azure load testing in the first blog of this series. In this blog we will see how to create and run a load test in Azure.

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Create Load test resource

Creating resource

• In your azure portal select + create a resource and search for Azure Load Testing ( It is still in preview stage when this blog was created )

• Click on create and provide the required information to configure Azure load testing resource as below

• After providing those information , select Review + create , Once it is validated you will be able to select create to start the deployment of the Azure Load testing resource

Assigning permissions

• Once you are into the resource , select IAM option and then select add role assignment

• Assign either Load Test Contributor or Load Test Owner role to your account.

• In the next tab select the members to whom this permission is to be applied and proceed to Review+assign tab

Create test plan

• Once the role is assigned , you will be now able to create a test plan

• Provide a Test name and move to next tab Test Plan , In this tab select your JMeter script that we already created as part of previous blog and then select Upload to upload the file to azure.

• We can skip to last option and click on create, as we will be covering in detail about monitoring and parameters in a separate blog :)

Test Run execution

• As soon as we created the test plan it will start to run by default ( we can modify it while we creating the test plan if we don’t need to run it after the test plan creation)

You can see the clien-side metrics while the test is running. By default the data refreshes every five seconds

• Let’s modify our JMeter script to have 100 concurrent users and see how our application performs for high scale loads

• We could see there is a increase in response time and performance of our application.

Compare test plans

• We also have an option to compare between test plans , to do so I reran our previous tests for multiple times and in the Test blade you need to select test plans that you want to compare and click on compare

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Next steps

In our next blog we will see how to create Continuous regression testing (CI/CD) using Azure pipelines

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