From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Continuous Testing and DevOps
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What is parallel testing? - Jenkins Tutorial
From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Continuous Testing and DevOps
What is parallel testing?
- [Narrator] What is parallel testing? Well, in serial testing, you can run tests end to end in a series, one test starts finishes, then the next test runs. In parallel testing, you have multiple tests running side by side, they stop and start alongside each other. When tests are executed in parallel, the overall execution time of the test suite is a lot shorter. In theory, instead of having a suite of say, four one minute tests running four minutes end to end. You could have a suite of four, one minute tests running side by side in about a minute. Additionally, depending on how you license web resources, parallel testing can save you money because it saves execution time. The reality of course, is a little bit more complicated than that. It also depends on your execution environment. Factors like the number of processors you have, the capabilities of those processors and what language you've written your tests…
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