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Predicting the Future of Testing By Harry Robinson Summary: As the end of the year approaches，psychics and pundits alike will start making their predictions about what’s in store for us in 2004 and beyond. In this weeks column，industry veteran Harry Robinson gives us his forecast on the future of software testing. ’?It is tough to make predictions，especially about the future.M—Yogi Berra Every December，tabloid fortune-tellers reveal what will happen in the coming year: “Madonna will fly on the space shuttle，” “the U.S. capital will move to Wichita, Kansas” and so forth. I’d like to jump on that bandwagon and make a few predictions of my own about where software testing is going in the next few years. And I can only hope my prophecies fare better than those of my esteemed tabloid colleagues! My main prediction is that software testing in the future will look very different than it does today. My reasoning is straightforward: Software testing largely stinks today. It comes into a project too late，contributes too little，and costs too much. If we care about the quality of our products and the health of our bottom lines，we need to re-think our approach to testing and quality. I will even go out on a limb and say that better methods，better training and a better appreciation for testers will revolutionize the software industry. To be specific， technologies such as executable specifications，model-based test generation，bug prevention，and system simulation will play important roles in the unfolding drama. Here are some scenes we will see in the industry over the next few years. In fact， some of these trends are starting to emerge already. Testers，Spec Writers，and Developers See Themselves as Partners Testers Help Spec Writers Testers work with spec writers to review and understand the spec as it is being written. Early review and modeling exposes many consistency，completeness, and ambiguity bugs while they are still cheap to fix. Spec Writers Help Testers The test team create