CRM Performance Toolkit Formalize testing of Microsoft CRM 4.0
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CRM Performance Toolkit Description

The Microsoft DynamicsTM CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit was developed to formalize testing of Microsoft CRM 4.0. The performance toolkit can be used by the Microsoft CRM partners and customers to collect data to support their CRM deployment decisions. The toolkit facilitates load testing the performance of CRM deployments. By carefully planning the required dataset that the deployment needs to support and the workload requirements, the toolkit can be used to test if the scale requirements of a particular deployment can be met. This mechanism can be used in the decisions on a particular deployment solution and avoid costly downtimes at a later stage. The Performance toolkit contains various tools listed below that can be used in customizing the CRM installation, populating the necessary semantic data for the required scale and conducting the benchmarking tests against the CRM installation. The tools provided in the Performance toolkit are: - ImportCustomization Tool - DbPopulator Tool - CRM_Perf_Benchmark Tool The Performance Toolkit is distributed in source format under the Open source licensing as provided by codeplex license agreement. Knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Visual C# is required to use the toolkit. The following are the pre-requisites to conduct the performance tests. - Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System running on a client system used to drive the CRM product. A workstation with 1GB RAM is sufficient to run the benchmarking tests. - Microsoft CRM 4.0 deployment suitable for performance testing. Ideally, the hardware configuration should be similar to the actual production environment. CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit Components The toolkit consists of following tools: - DbPopulator Tool This is an xml driven tool that uses Microsoft Dyanamics CRM 4.0 API calls to load the CRM deployment system with pre-requisite data. - ImportCustomization Tool This is a tool that uses the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 API calls to import and publish customizations that can be provided using a customization xml file. - CRM_Perf_Benchmark Tool This is a tool that can be run in the Visual Studio Test infrastructure that comprises of several scenario driven tests that can be used to test the performance of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployment under a load simulation.

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