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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 ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Goericke (ed.), The Future of Software QualityAssurance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_15 197