7 years ago, the story of Netflix elicited either a smile or confusion: here we go, developers will be responsible for deployment, and administrators will go code! Who would have known how everything would turn out?

Developers have entered the race for feature and build delivery speed, and ops teams have focused on security, pipeline automation, and seamless updates twice a day.

As DevOps made giant strides, dozens of people kept clicking buttons in web forms and marking checkboxes in test scenarios for hours on the "crucial" releases or features.

In this talk, we will try to figure out at what moment the testing industry took a wrong turn and where to run to make everything work as it should.

30-45 minutes; for AQA and automation engineers and engineering leads.