As presented during EuroSTAR 2018

1. DevOps
An unknown future for testers?
Or an opportunity?
Ivo de Bruijn - bol.com
#EuroSTARConf
Joost van Wollingen - Xebia

3. Ivo de Bruijn
Software Test Engineer, bol.com
@instabruijn
Joost van Wollingen
Quality & Test automation, Xebia
@jpjwolli

4. Context of bol.com
4
Introduction
Accelerating again,
DevOps @ bol.com
Journey
What changed for us?
Role of the Tester
A personal
story
Quiz and Q&A
Conclusion

6. DevOps transition @ bol.com
Shifting right

7. 1999
2005
2009
2016 -
2018

8. IT Operations
IT Development
Business

11. Deployment strategies
Alerting & Responsibility
Massive learning opportunity
Monitoring

12. ● New responsibilities encouraged adoption of DevOps
● Software Quality becomes extremely visible (and painful!)
● Teams get better feedback from PRO

13. Testing in isolated environments
Shift left

14. Test
Acc
Pro
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16. Database
Application
Other
services
Messaging
Other
services

17. ● Taking full control of your own test environment and test data
● Isolate yourself from others and isolate others from you
● Get rid of the “works on my machine” syndrome
● Speed up your feedback cycle from days to minutes!!

18. https://bolcom.github.io/docker-for-testers/

19. A personal story...
From test engineer to software engineer

21. ● I couldn’t keep up with development
in my team
● adding the most value to the team
● wanting a technical challenge

22. ● A lot of questions
● Some doubts
● A lot to learn

23. 1. Basic Java Oracle Certified Associate Java (OCA)
2. Basic Kotlin
3. Basic Maven
4. CI tools (Gitlab CI, Jenkins)
5. Basic Spring
6. Oracle/PG database integration JDBC
7. Testing frameworks (Mockito, Spring Cloud Contract)
8. ...

24. bol.com CoachColleagues

26. The Quiz

27. Go to and use code
● Sharing everybody’s experiences
● Use your mobile phone to give
your input
● WiFi: EuroSTAR2018
● Password: jenesaispas

28. Conclusion

29. ● Both shifting right & shifting left
● Big impact on how, by whom and when we test
● Testing is still needed
● More testing in isolation to create a faster feedback cycle
● Need for upskilling technical skills as a test engineer

30. Time for questions

31. Thank You!
Ivo de Bruijn & Joost van Wollingen
#EuroSTARConf