Selenium Camp 2016 talk's slides. See details on the official site: http://seleniumcamp.com/talk/effective-ui-tests-scaling-on-java

1. Pitfalls and solutions

2. Speaker’s info:
 Lead Test Engineer at GlobalLogic
 Consultant and mentor: http://lessons2.ru/consulting
 Editor and moderator: http://automated-testing.info
 Certified ISTQB engineer
Contacts and contributions:
 Email: serhii.s.korol@gmail.com
 GitHub: sskorol
 Blog: http://qa-automation-notes.blogspot.com

11.  Annotations are not extendable.
 Overhead with plain jdbc driver.
 How to manage sessions across threads?
 How to access multiple data sources?

12.  A wheel has already been invented.
 Don’t be afraid of annotations.
 Java 8 is your weapon.
 Avoid spamming classes with multiple data
providers.

15. Libraries:
 Vibur: http://vibur.org/vibur-object-pool
 AspectJ: https://eclipse.org/aspectj

20.  Thread-safe containers save your nerve cells.
 CapabilityMatcher is the Lord's Grid’s Eye.
 5-lines generic DataProvider protects against N
more specific implementations.
 Object pool makes test scenarios more realistic.
 Environment watcher could be your best
housekeeper.