Testing web pages can be a tedious process, and having to
test many slightly different scenarios only makes the task worse. By using
data binding, web performance tests can be written such that they test a range
of values without the need to re-record test scripts or write custom code.
Test data can be decoupled from the actual recording of the test itself, and can
be stored either in simple text files in CSV or XML format, or in an actual
database.
I found this
article to be helpful while working on this walkthrough. I'm also working
on an
online video series for PluralSight on Visual Studio performance testing
that I hope to have completed in a couple of months.