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194 I. Trejos-Zelaya testing, software analysis, software integration, software aging and software maintenance. As the ‘digital transformation’ of organisations progresses, more challenges— and opportunities—lie ahead for those in Hispanic America interested in software qualityandsoftware testing. Acknowledgements I thank Stephan Goericke and Agustina Gay of iSQI for the invitation to contribute, Santiago Castaño of the HASTQB for sharing statistical data, Carolina Triana for documentsonChoucair Testing, colleaguesof theJIISIC and SLISWLatinAmerican conferences on software engineering and my family—for theirpatience (one more time!). References 1. Barlas, S.: How critical is the shortage of IT workers? IEEE Computer. 30(5), 14–16 (1997) 2. Hoch, D.,Purkert, G.:Secrets of Software Success. McKinsey &Company (2000) 3. National Research Council: Building a Workforce for the Information Economy. National Academy Press (2001) 4. Computer World, USA/North American editions.Years 1997-2000 5. Mata,F., Jofré,A.:Estudiodeofertaydemandadel recurso humanoenla industriadesoftware [Study of supply and demand of human resources by the software industry]. Pro-Software (Inter-American Development Bank, Caprosoft, Procomer, FunCenat) (2001) 6. Brenes, L., Govaere, V.: La industria del software en Costa Rica [The software industry in Costa Rica]. Comercio Exterior. 58(5), 303–311 (2008) 7. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula. The overview report: covering undergraduate degree programs in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, andSoftware Engineering.ACMPressandIEEEComputer Society Press (2005) 8. Sabin, M., Viola, B., Impagliazzo, J., Angles, R., Curiel, M., Leger, P., Murillo, J., Nina, H., Pow-Sang, J. A., Trejos, I.: Latin American perspectives to internationalize undergraduate information technologyeducation. InProceedingsof the2016ACMConference onInnovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2016). ITiCSE ‘16 Working Group Reports, July 09–13, 2016, Arequipa, Peru. A.,Clear, E.,Cuadros-Vargas, J., Carter, Y.Tupac (Eds.). Association for Computing Machinery (2016) 9. Marques, I.d.C.:History ofcomputing inLatin America. IEEE Ann. Hist.Comput. 37(4), 10– 12 (2015) 10. GSMAThe MobileEconomy Latin America and the Caribbean (2018) 11. World Economic Forum: The Future of Jobs. Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland (2016) 12. Experis: Tomorrow’s Talent: Plugging the IT SkillsGap. Experis, London, UK (2013) 13. Capgemini Consulting: The Digital Talent Gap - Developing Skills for Today’s Digital Organizations. London, UK,Capgemini Consulting (2013) 14. The Bureau of National Affairs: Building Tomorrow’s Talent: Collaboration Can Close Emerging SkillsGap. Bloomberg BNA,Arlington,Virginia (2018) 15. Trejos, I., Cordero, A.: Learn-by-doing-collaboratively across the curriculum: Integrative projects atUCenfotec. In: IEEE World Engineering Education Conference –EDUNINE 2017. IEEE, Santos, BRAZIL (2017) 16. Naur, P., Randell, B. (eds.): Software Engineering. Report on a Conference sponsored by the NATOScience Committee.Garmisch, Germany, 7th to11th (1968, October)