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The Future of Testing 205 certain tasksbecauseit’s incapableofexecutingsomecalculationswithinarequired time frame.However,whensomethingsimilarwouldhappen to anautonomouscar driving at a great speed on the motor way in 20 years from now it would predict disaster! It’s up to the software testers of the future to make sure chances are as small as humanly possible that something like that can happen with software that might be responsible for human lives. I don’t know what the future of software testingwill bebringingus, but I doknowit will requireus to keepstayingaheadof the game.To keep investing in knowledge, to keep improving in our skillset and to remainable toadapt tochange.Whateverchangethatmaybe.Only thenwillwebe able to survive in this futureworldof software testing! P.S. Anyone up for a cup of coffee somewhere in 2038 and a look back with me at the things I’vewritten downhere? Acknowledgments TheauthorwouldliketothankJorisMeerts,PascalMaus,PieterWithaar,Piet de Roo, Huib Schoots and Berry Kersten for their input and feedback on this chapter, which was loosely based on an earlier published interview withsome of these people. References 1. Gray, K.:WhatGoes on inBrains: Howan Understanding ofNeuroscience Makes a Difference When you Advocate Agility;P3X Conference November 8th 2018, London (2018) 2. Levitin,D.J.,Luke, D.:The Organized Mind.Penguin Group US,New York (2014) 3. https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/6/4498808/honda-asimo-disappoints-when-it-confuses- phones-for-hands. Accessed June 19 2019 Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation,distributionandreproduction inanymediumorformat, as longasyougiveappropriate credit to the original author(s) and thesource, provide a link to theCreative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation orexceeds the permitteduse, you willneed toobtain permission directly from the copyright holder.