Silverlight is different from classic HTML web applications where the server does all of the processing. With Silverlight content is delivered without having to reload the page. The server constantly updates the application asynchronously. For this reason, IIS server loads reveal a very different profile. This article presents the new challenges in load testing Silverlight applications and provides three tips to improve Silverlight application perfor­mance.

This blog post gives a short tutorial on how to deal with the several issues that prevent the use of functional testing tools (e.g. Fitnesse) with a Silverlight project out of the box. A recent experience with a Silverlight application showed that the approach produces a little overhead, but that this overhead is negligible compared to the benefits of automated functional testing involving the ViewModels.

Waltham, MA, April 12, 2010 – Telerik, a leading provider of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform, today announced the launch of WebUI Test Studio 2010, an innovative and easy-to-use automated web-testing solution.