Best practices for technical aspects of software testing in enterprises

Software testing is essential for the creation of high quality software products. Since it is an expensive task and hard to manage, its organizational implementation has to be well founded. We worked with regional companies in order to learn about their distinct weaknesses and strengths in software development. Eventually, we deduced best practices for software testing. In this paper we sketch the research methodology used. We present four important best practices focusing on technical aspects of testing in organizations. For each of the four recommendations we give implementation advice based on a categorization framework.

1. Introduction

The strive to improve software quality is no new emergence. The idea to optimize technical aspects respectively to use technology to achieve this aim is known for decades. Unsurprisingly, the term software engineering [20] has been coined in the 1960s and the software crisis is known – and unfortunately still lasting – since the 1970s [8].