Challenge, approach, and impact

• Large quantities of data

  A significant part of the software's functionality was to display data, either by text or graphically, which required the software development team to ensure that all of the displayed data was correct and consistent. This proved to be a time-consuming task, down to the last pixel, which increased the time needed to perform the run of a test set.

• Multiple environments

  The tests needed to be able to run on multiple environments that were configured differently from one another and consisted of different data and functionalities. This increased the number of tests the software team had to perform, as well as drastically increased the time needed to perform the run of a test set.

• Optimizing code for speedy executions

  Having tests run in parallel to save time was great, but it required optimizing the tasks and questions, which were the building blocks of tests since even one unoptimized task or question that was used everywhere would waste precious time when being executed.