With the rapid scaling of our health care application under consideration, in terms of number of users and the functionality involved as well as migration from a legacy system, the need to increase the coverage of automated tests for both systems seemed vital. Also, running a large no of test suites on daily basis against multiple browsers was critical.

As a part of this transition, the existing popular concept of using a continuous integration server with a grid machine and individual node machines poised issues in terms of cost as well as performance. Increase of automated test led to the increase in demand of node machines distributed across different machines on the same/different network. While the network latency for a limited number of node machines could be ignored, it eventually caused a significant reduction in performance.

Being part of a large enterprise, changing the architecture was not a feasible solution. In this talk we will talk about how selenium grid was removed from the equation to achieve automated tests that ran twice as faster and how it can be integrated on enterprise level requirement.