Speakers

Michael Palotas was one of the key drivers in the development of Selenium Grid and is able to provide deep insights into the Selenium world. For more than 10 years Mr. Palotas shaped software and test engineering at eBay International as Head of Quality Engineering. He was key responsible for leading the transformation for eBay International from a waterfall to a highly agile organization employing new paths and approaches especially in the field of engineering practices. Before joining eBay, Michael held lead roles in companies like Ericsson, Nortel Networks, Intel.

After leaving eBay, Michael founded Element34 Solutions GmbH together with Francois Reynaud to help companies succeed in the field of test automation and agile engineering practices. Michael works with clients on a strategic as well as on a technical level - connecting the dots between the business and technical implementations.

Scaling your Selenium Tests for web and mobile beyond your local Firefox Browser

Considerations for designing, setup and operating a scalable, up-to-date, stable, cost-efficient and secure test execution infrastructure with Selenium Grid

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for test automation, Selenium will become the de-facto standard by 2020 for test automation. One could say that Selenium already “is” the standard for automating web and mobile applications. Many organizations have started to build up substantial test suites with Selenium. While Selenium allows for a relatively easy way to write tests (assuming software development know-how), organizations often lack an execution environment with browsers and mobiles where those tests can be run in a reliable and scalable fashion.

Selenium provides the Selenium Grid component to execute tests in parallel, which drastically reduces the time of test runs. Setting up the Selenium Grid for demo / proof of concept purposes is a relatively simple task. However, the setup, operation and up-keeping of a highly scalable, up-to-date, stable, cost-efficient and secure Selenium Grid infrastructure is highly complex and time consuming.

Michael Palotas will showcase what organizations should consider when architecting and deciding on the test automation infrastructure for web and mobile with Selenium / Selenium Grid (and beyond). They will show possible approaches and shed light on aspects including:

• Build vs. buy
• Cloud vs. in-house
• Managed vs. self-operated
• Scalability
• Performance
• Pricing
• Reporting and monitoring
• Target application: Web, mobile and beyond