Asad Faruqui and Moni Mau say that their old regression automation used to take three-to-four days of execution time as they ran against different browser versions, locales, and currencies. They wanted to make the automation framework more efficient so features could go to market faster. Symantec explored Selenium Grid which could reduce the run time by offering some parallelism, but Asad and Moni wanted even more efficiency. They explain how they created both a...
Asad Faruqui
Symantec
QA director for trust services business unit, Asad Faruqui is responsible for leading the quality organization for market-leading SSL, malware/vulnerability scanning, and authentication solutions under the Symantec, Thawte, Geotrust, and Rapid SSL brands. Prior to Symantec, Asad worked at Cisco leading their routing protocol test teams under their central OS group. In all his roles, Asad has focused on increasing test automation, increasing test coverage, and measuring QA metrics around test efficiency.