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This chapter presents a summary of the Hispanic America region status and prospects in software engineering—particularly those regarding software quality and software testing.
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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 documents on Choucair Testing, colleagues of the JIISIC and SLISW Latin American conferences on software engineering and my family—for their patience (one more time!).
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Trejos-Zelaya, I. (2020). Developing Software Quality and Testing Capabilities in Hispanic America: Challenges and Prospects. In: Goericke, S. (eds) The Future of Software Quality Assurance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_14
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