Microsoft offer a number of useful performance test, stress test and load testing tools for application performance testing and software performance testing.

The following Application Performance Testing and Web stress tools are available from Microsoft:Web Capacity Analysis Tool and these can play a key role in WordPress Web Design and other web design london techniques.

• The IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools include WCAT 5.2. To download the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en
• The IIS 7.0 Web Capacity Analysis tool can be downloaded from the following Microsoft Web site:
• http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1466&g=6

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test EditionFor more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd408381.aspx

With these Microsoft test tools you can stress test your Web server to see how it reacts when several hundred users access your application at peak times. These tools can also be used to test the server-side components for performance, locks, and other scalability issues. A Web application that relies on databases can also be tested on parameters such as concurrency, transactions, number of users, locks, pooling, and so forth. These Microsoft Performance test tools are invaluable to those developing in Microsoft languages.