How to make your functional tests really quick (Mikalai Alimenkou, Ukraine)

Functional tests are usually the slowest layer of automated tests for almost every product. They use product via UI, store data in real DB, integrate with external services and do other “slow” things. The first easy answer how to make them fast is to run in parallel. But in reality tests depends on the same data and intersect by some common functionality. In this talk we will review useful techniques and approaches how to win this battle.