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Testing in the Digital Age Rik Marselis Abstract Howdoyoutest a robot? Is testingan intelligentmachinedifferent from testing traditional IT systems? Can we use a robot to make testing easier? Will artificial intelligence take overall testingactivities? These and many more questions may come to mind in the current digital age. When readingabout the tremendously fast-movingdevelopments that are currently happening in information technology (e.g., computers) and operational technology (e.g., factories),withartificial intelligence,machine learning, robots,chatbots, self- drivingcars, autonomousvacuumcleaners, andmanyother intelligentmachines. Keywords Software testing · Softwarequality · Artificial intelligence · Intelligentmachines · Test automation 1 TestingOf andWith IntelligentMachines How do you test a robot? Is testing an intelligent machine different from testing traditional IT systems? Can we use a robot to make testing easier? Will artificial intelligence takeoverall testingactivities? These and many more questions may come to mind in the current digital age. When readingabout the tremendously fast-movingdevelopments that are currently happening in information technology (e.g., computers) and operational technology (e.g., factories),withartificial intelligence,machine learning, robots,chatbots, self- drivingcars, autonomousvacuumcleaners, andmanyother intelligentmachines. In the digital age we prefer not to talk about the function of test engineer but about test engineering as a set of skills and activities that can be performed by peoplewithmanydifferentroles.Theskillsneededtosetupdigital test engineering are numerous. It is not feasible that all skills are gathered in one person. Teams of digital test experts work together to set up, for example, a test automation system R.Marselis Sogeti,Amsterdam, Netherlands ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Goericke (ed.), The Future of Software QualityAssurance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_6 77