Microsoft has launched a fully managed load testing service for Azure, helping QA testers and developers optimize their app's performance.

The Microsoft Azure Load Testing service is now commercially released, according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.

Microsoft has introduced Azure App Testing, a new Azure Portal hub that consolidates Azure Load Testing and Playwright Workspaces to run large-scale performance and end-to-end web tests.

Learn why load and stress testing are necessary components of the software development process, as well the main differences between the two.

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent ...