Marcel de Vries

Global MD & CTO
Microsoft Services

Biography.

Marcel is the co-founder, Global MD & CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services, a company within the Xebia group that provides high-end consulting services in Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Cloud Native Software Development, and Managed Services. Since its inception in 2014, Xebia Microsoft Services has helped organizations deliver software securely and compliantly, enabling them to be faster, more innovative, and productive.
Marcel is passionate about learning new technologies and applying them to help customers thrive. He frequently shares his expertise at conferences and training events. Marcel believes that the CEO title in tech companies should have a second meaning: Coding Executive Officer. He strongly believes that great leaders must stay on top of technology to lead effectively.
A sought-after speaker, Marcel has presented at events like Microsoft //Build, Microsoft Ignite, Azure Lowlands, Visual Studio Live!, Techorama, and KCDC. He also serves on the Techorama board and contributes to organizing events across Europe. Outside of work, Marcel creates online courses for Pluralsight, sharing his knowledge on topics such as Cloud Adoption, DevOps, Microservices, and more.
Marcel has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for over 17 consecutive years and has served as a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008.

Talk.

Maintainable and Scalable Test Automation with Playwright Cloud Services

Do you find it hard to create and maintain automated tests for your applications? Have you created automated tests but find them hard to maintain? Are you looking for ways to speed up and scale your test runs so you have faster results? This session will teach you how to build maintainable automated test suites using Microsoft Playwright services on Azure integrated into your CI/CD workflows on Azure DevOps or GitHub. In this session, you’ll learn to build maintainable test suites by default. It will introduce concepts like Page Objects, DRY, and DAMP tests. You will also learn how to apply these patterns to Playwright and use cloud services to scale up and speed up your tests.

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