Time is flying pretty fast. Christmas has just finished and we have February already. Probably everyone who wanted to post 2016 testing predictions has already done it. Hopefully, I'm the last one (lots of scientists say it's the best possible scenario). Before I start I'd like to introduce two controversial definitions, which are not covered in ISTQB Glossary. Quotes from James Bach and Micheal Bolton (source):
Testing is the process of evaluating a product by learning about it through exploration and experimentation, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation, inference, etc.
Checking is the process of making evaluations by applying algorithmic decision rules to specific observations of a product.
I'm not a fan of reinventing the testing field entirely, but this distinction seems pretty reasonable for me.
