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  • Microsoft Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

    Posted on February 2, 2004 by Admin

    Note: This article was originally posted on Loadtester.com, and has been migrated to the Northway web site to maintain the content online.
    For some time, Microsoft has published their own capacity planning model called Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) . They also offer their own stress testing tools (WAST, ACT, etc) that can be used as add-ons to Visual Studio or stand alone tools for testing Microsoft applications. I was recently asked why I don’t recommend this method and those tools to accomplish performance goals, rather tha Read Entire Entry