Quality assurance and quality management are based on principles that are universally applicable. The principles origin from industry and international trade, e.g. for conformity assessment. The importance of the quality of testing services is obvious, characterizing the economical impact on international trade.Moreover, the economical development and related powers by large common and national markets result in the formation of trade barriers, reducing the opportunities for free competition.To some, the globalization of the economy was seen as a wrong direction; others were stimulated to further harmonization of the quality practices. This has led today toa well- organized system of rulesand norms and mutual recognition thereof, resulting in internationally accepted accreditation of testing laboratories.The rapid growth of testing laboratories with quality systems was therefore due to (i) the strong need for internationally accepted export certificates and (ii) the need for objective demostration of the quality of services as a warranty to the quality of products and services on competing markets. Impelled by these developments the testing laboratories providing services to production and export of goods became increasingly trustful. But laboratories in the reserch, development and teaching areas were initially immune to these views on quality practices and/or had no external drivinig forces for this. In this dissertation aiming at a Master degree,the presented work focuses on development of quality practices in the academic environment and development laboratories.The main consideration of this workis to implement quality practices without deviating from the rigid structure of the norms.To this end, various typical quality pactices were evaluted against the requeriments of the international standard ISO/IEC 17025. This has resulted in dissecting and ordering these requirements by priority. This should contribute to reduce the technical and psychological barriers and simplify the implementation of this complex process in the academically environment.