View source for Strategies For Speeding Up Or Scaling Tests

A major theme of this talk was to use the same strategies for slow tests and slow builds that you'd use for slow applications

Profile

Don't test as much

Story tests vs User Journies

Use faster tests vs slower tests (unit tests vs functional tests)

Follow Feather's rules for unit tests: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=126923

Parallelization

Test Load Balancer:  http://test-load-balancer.github.com/