I read with interest this morning, Sean Lumley’s blog post entitled “Enhanced web test support in Fiddler“. I have had my fair share of headaches recording web tests using VSTS and I have known for a while that Fiddler is your friend. The ability to save Fiddler tests in the VSTS .webtest format is fantastic. After reading Sean’s post I know that has never been more true than now with the updates to version 2.0.8.8.

Some of the new features (from Sean’s blog) include;

• Ability to filter out dependent requests
• Only first request in a redirect chain will be saved.
• Automatic correlation of view state and event validation fields
• Plug-in architecture that allows you to write your own custom code that can change how a web test is saved.

If you’re working with Web Tests in VSTS, be sure to read Sean’s full blog post and download Fiddler 2.0.8.8 or later here.