Working on a selenium test suite for a large web app. Nightly tests currently take 3h to finish. At what point do nightly tests become weekly tests??

If you aren’t deploying system wide changes daily, something about that doesn’t sound right if you are, I would only run a smaller suite that covers what you have touched since previous deployment and do a complete suite weekly.

@C0D4 yeah that's what I am thinking. Maybe a fully run each weekend.

Would parallelizing them help any?

@jallman112 saddly not. Some of the tests make changes to a backend DB.

If it’s all auto pulled from source, then you can start at 6p (sorry night owls, you will get in tomorrow’s test) and you have till 6a; so as long as you stay under 12h runs you can still do nightly.