Virtualization and containerization have been two disruptive technologies in the past few years. Both technologies have allowed isolating the applications with fewer resources and have impacted fields as Software Testing. In the field of testing, the execution of the containerized/virtualized test suite has achieved great savings, but when the complexity or the cost of deployment arises, there are open challenges like the efficient execution of End to End (E2E) test suites. This paper proposes a research problem and a feasible solution that looks for improving resource usage into the E2E tests, towards smart resource identification and a proper organization of its execution in order to achieve efficient and effective resource usage. The resources are characterized by a series of attributes that provide information about the resource and to its usage during the E2E testing phase. The test cases are grouped and scheduled with the resources (i.e. deployed in parallel in the same machine or executed in a fixed arrange), in order to make an efficient execution of the entire test suite, reducing its total cost/time

Cristian Augusto received the degree in Computer Science in Information Technology from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain in 2018. He is currently finishing his master’s degree in Computer Engineering into Oviedo University. His interest research areas in the field of Software Engineering are Big Data, privacy-preserving techniques and Software Testing mainly focused on the efficient use of resources in the test process. He has also been part since 2018 of the Software Engineering Research Group (GIIS) at the Oviedo University