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Testing inDevOps FrankFaber Abstract DevOps can be explained by a set of principles and these principles indicate that Testing in DevOpsshouldbe lookedat differently.The customermust be at the center of testing and more specialized tests must also be used. To ensure that there is continuous feedback, automation should be used as much as possible. All these tests are the responsibility of one team. To achieve this, a test engineer in DevOpsmustbecomeaT-shapedengineer. Keywords Software testing · Softwarequality · Test automation · Test engineer · DevOps · Agile testing 1 Introduction In many IT organizations there is a “Wall of Confusion” [1] between development and operations. On the one hand, development wants change, but on the other, operationswants stability.Between themisa wallwith a lot ofconfusion. There has been a shift to break down this “Wall of Confusion.” More teams are starting to work with a DevOps mindset. Engineers from different organizational silos are working together to create value for the customer. The DevOps mindset places more emphasis on delivering quality in a service, with end-to-end responsi- bility. To assure the quality of the service, testing was and will be an essential part of theprocess.WithDevOps,changesarenecessarytomakesuretestingreallyfocuses on thequality in thedeliveredservice. F. Faber ALTENNederland, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Goericke (ed.), The Future of Software QualityAssurance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_3 27