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TheFutureof Testing
Digging in thePast of SoftwareTesting
andUnearthingtheFuture
KasparvanDam
Abstract Many articles have been written on this topic. Many people have been
trying to predict the future of software testing. Only time can tell who’s right and
who’swrong.Being a software tester todayand a formerarchaeologystudent, I’ve
decided to start digging in the past of Software Testing in an attempt to predict
the futureof thisprofession.Whatwill change?Whatwill stay thesame?Andwhat
thingsfromthepastmightresurface?Let’smakeatimelinestartingaround20years
agoin1998(whichis themomentwhenImyselfstarteddiggingaroundintheworld
ofcomputersandsoftware)andtrytostretchthisall thewayto20yearsin thefuture
with10-year intervals.
Keywords Software testing · Softwarequality · Software testinghistory ·
Software testing future
1 Introduction
Many articles have been written on this topic. Many people have been trying to
predict the future of software testing. Only time can tell who’s right and who’s
wrong.Beingasoftwaretester todayandaformerarchaeologystudent, I’vedecided
to start digging in the past of Software Testing in an attempt to predict the future
of this profession. What will change? What will stay the same? And what things
from the past might resurface? Let’s make a timeline starting around 20 years ago
in1998(which is themomentwhenImyself starteddiggingaroundin theworldof
computersand software) and try to stretch this all the way to 20 years in the future
with10-year intervals.
K.van Dam
Improve Quality Services, Zwolle, Netherlands
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The Future of Software Quality Assurance
- Title
- The Future of Software Quality Assurance
- Author
- Stephan Goericke
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Location
- Cham
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-29509-7
- Size
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Pages
- 276
- Category
- Informatik