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\nChristmas is a \u201dLichtfest\u201d for us in the North. Daytime, at this time of year, only lasts a few hours and the sun never really rise on the horizon. Christmas reminds us that light days will return and it’s time to look ahead on the year to come.
\nI have two hopes for software testing for 2014:<\/p>\n

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  1. I hope we will stop looking for simple explanaitions why<\/i> something failed: The product, the testing, the development.<\/li>\n
  2. We cannot expect all managers to be testing experts, so we need better documented and qualified testing practices (in various contexts) in order to support better top management software testing decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Looking back on 2013…
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    \nI had a busy 2013, privately as well as professionally.     Let’s Test in May<\/a> was fantastic! A few weeks later, I gave a successful lecture on Context Driven Testing in IDA-IT<\/a>.
    \nI have for long wanted to link my favorite philosopher Niels Bohr to testing. Denmark celebrated the 100 year anniversary of Niels Bohrs articles on the atom model this year. Niels Bohr was a Nobel Prize wining physicist, but more than anything, he was a philosopher – my favorite philosopher by far.
    \nMy second favorite is Nassim Taleb. Taleb published his new book     Antifragile<\/a> in late 2012, and I read it this year<\/a>. But it was his previous book Black Swan <\/a>that made me a fan.
    \nIn chapter 12 of Black Swan, Taleb criticizes historicism: Always wanting to find causes of why things happen. That happens a lot in testing too:<\/p>\n