We often live in an ‘either or’ environment, having to make difficult decisions that sacrifice an eventual outcome in some way. In the world of testing, this leads to the age-old debate between speed and quality. Fortunately, DevOps and the concept of continuous testing have given us the best of both worlds by allowing developers to increase the quality of the code that they ship as well as the velocity at which they release it. To better understand how we got to this place it’s important to understand the history of test.