1. Will depend on programming trends
2. Future of testing in automation: automated unit testing; automated functional testing
3. Software testing will get harder, more expensive and therefore less efficient
4. Software testing will always have a future. As long as developers will write code there will be bugs, and the need for specialists to test them
5. Reduction of QA costs, by increasing the quality of the code and reducing production time
6. Non-functional testing: performance, application security testing etc. should increase
7. Your forecast
Please note: the answers were selected from previous polls where specialists from QA related areas express their thoughts. I just want to share it so that we’ll be able to match it with our own vision.