This list is not inclusive; rather, it is an abbreviated list of "hot topics" currently facing the testing community.

• Approaches
• Exploratory testing
• Scripted testing
• Model-based and specification-based testing
• Component-based and software architecture-based testing
• Agile methodology
• Web services testing
• Release criteria
• Test adequacy criteria
• Test measurements and metrics
• Techniques
• Scenario testing
• Performance testing
• Session-based testing
• Test automation and tools
• Technologies
• New testing techniques applied to established technologies (Embedded Systems, Mainframe environments, Client Server Technologies, Stand Alone Applications, etc.)
• Existing testing techniques applied to emerging technologies (Web services testing, Web 2.0, Drupal, PHP, etc.)
• Process and Management
• Test measurement and metrics
• Test-driven development
• Test planning
• Test team management
• Outsourced testing
• Acceptance testing