Going forward

If you've managed to get to this point, then you might need to make some additional considerations.

As we've seen, automation incorporates a lot of reporting tools, suites for testing, and other projects to help you understand, improve, and analyze your project.

One of the biggest gripes of automation is the speed at which it performs all the tests.

There are techniques to halve the time it takes to perform these tests. While Jenkins and jenkins-php provide targets for running the targets in parallel, by executing build-parallel. With Codeception, the story is a bit different and you would need to take a different route by extending the Ant project we've created before. Codeception uses robo-paracept to parallelize the tests.

If you want to discover more about Codeception, then there's a nice article available at http://codeception.com/docs/12-ParallelExecution. You'll notice that it will work by marking groups of tests together and aggregating them so...