Performance and loading testing WCF services with JMeter

JMeter is great for performance and load testing WCF services. It's a free Java app available for download here - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi.

JMeter has numours components available to create a test plan such as

• logic controllers, which allows you define conditions when requests are sent (e.g. every 2nd thread make a request using this web request).
• timers, define the stand down period before a thread will make another request
• assertions, parse the response to assert that the request was successful
• listeners, various ways to display the response data received by JMeter.

An example on how to create a web service test plan using JMeter is available here - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-ws-test-plan.html

EDIT: I've created a new post on how to set up with a CSV data set.