For more than 10 years Michael shaped software and test engineering at eBay. He led 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 to help companies succeed in the field of test automation and agile engineering practices.

Before founding Element34 Solutions GmbH together with Michael Palotas, Francois was a principal software engineer at eBay International for more than 10 years.

One of Francois' most notable contributions to the software engineering world was the development of Selenium Grid and ios-driver.
He is one of the most recognized experts for test automation and continuous integration worldwide.

LOCATION: Zürich

SPEAKER 1: Michael Palotas   COMPANY: Element34 Solutions GmbH
SPEAKER 2: Francois Reynaud   COMPANY: Element34 Solutions GmbH

SLIDES: 160825_e34-JUG-Selenium-Grid.pdf

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 and Francois Reynaud 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).

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

For more than 10 years Michael shaped software and test engineering at eBay. He led 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 to help companies succeed in the field of test automation and agile engineering practices.

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Before founding Element34 Solutions GmbH together with Michael Palotas, Francois was a principal software engineer at eBay International for more than 10 years.

One of Francois' most notable contributions to the software engineering world was the development of Selenium Grid and ios-driver.
He is one of the most recognized experts for test automation and continuous integration worldwide.

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