Scaling Automated Tests to Infinity and Beyond

CQAA October 2025

Scaling Automated Tests to Infinity and Beyond

About the Topic

Testing is a risk-mitigating activity that takes time. Ideally, we want to cover as many behaviors as possible in the shortest amount of time for fast feedback. The only way to speed up is to scale up. But how?

This talk outlines a playbook for the five most impactful ways to scale up tests. From improving infrastructure to arranging tests more efficiently down to refining the performance of particular steps, you will learn tried-and-true techniques for running more tests in less time. With this playbook, you could scale up to hundreds of tests running concurrently without crashing.

Join this session to supercharge your testing efforts and scale your test execution to infinity and beyond!

Key Learning Objective

• Parallelizing tests is the best way to scale.
• Black box tests must handle waiting and synchronization properly.
• Only pay for better compute power if the previous two points are met.
• Automated tests should be atomic rather than grand tours.
• Optimize setup and cleanup routines within tests as well. 

About the Speaker

Andrew Knight, Automation Panda, Senior Director of Product Management at Cycle Labs

Andrew Knight, also known as “Pandy,” is the Automation Panda. He’s a software quality champion who loves to help people build better quality software. Currently, he works as the Senior Director of Product Management at Cycle Labs, focusing on building an excellent test automation platform for enterprise systems. Previously, Pandy spent a decade as a SDET building solutions to testing problems at various tech companies. He also previously led Developer Relations and Test Automation University at Applitools. As an avid supporter of open source software, Pandy is a Playwright Ambassador as well as the lead developer for Boa Constrictor, the .NET Screenplay Pattern. On the side, he is writing a book on software testing with Manning Publications. Apart from software, Pandy spends time with his family, his French Bulldog, and his vintage Volkswagens. Check out his tech blog at AutomationPanda.com, and follow him on X at @AutomationPanda.

Registration

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS PROGRAM.

Please register by October 13th, 2025 at www.cqaa.org.

If you have any questions, please contact info@cqaa.org.

Date: Wednesday, October 15th 2025, from 12:00pm-1:00pm

Location
Webinar - https://zoom.us/j/94338050650?pwd=B8B5M8psWSgskwnbkMba2nWkgooZLB.1