Let's make this test suite run faster!

Abstract

The more the tests, the longer the build. And when the build gets longer, the bugs take longer to fix, the features take longer to deploy.

A build should be less than five minutes long, all tests included. Now lets say, our test suite takes much longer than that. How to reduce its duration? Where to start?

David will present different strategies: Making some tests become useless, converting functional tests to unit tests, running tests in parallel, building projects in parallel, doing slow tasks only once, writing fast DBMS tests... Let's share dozens of tips to accelerate your test suite A LOT.

Beware! This presentation is targeted at lazy people and cheaters but also brave ones. Three approaches to combine for the best result.

Bio

David Gageot is CTO at Algodeal, a quant hedge fund. After 4 years at Valtech, helping his customers to get on the Agile train, David comes back to his true love, writing good software, working in a team, and improving continuously. At Algodeal, we are trying to provide any quant on the planet with the best tools to backtest his quantitative strategies. This implies setting up a complex web site backed by a farm of servers running backtests on Tbytes of data stored on a NoSql database. Did I mention we actually have fun doing that?

Date & Location

December 1st from 19h00 till 21h00 in Antwerp