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.