Characteristics of a Good Test Case (2024)

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Ivan Luizio Magalhães

Business Process, Customer Experience, Intelligent Automation, Quality Assurance, and Vendor Management

Published Sep 3, 2016

"Quality in a product (good or service) is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it."

Peter Drucker

A good Test Case satisfies the following criteria:

  1. Easily identifiable with its name;
  2. Simple and specific (any one in the test team should be able to execute the Test Cases without the author help);
  3. Reasonable probability of catching an defect;
  4. Traceable to requirements;
  5. Compliant to regulations;
  6. Exercises an area of interest;
  7. Does interesting things;
  8. Doesn't do unnecessary things;
  9. Explicitedpre-conditions;
  10. Defined test data input;
  11. Clear, concise, and complete (no assumptions in Test Case description, steps, expected result etc.);
  12. Written without grammar errors;
  13. Written without ambiguous words;
  14. Always list expected results;
  15. Always list post condition;
  16. Neither too simple nor too complex;
  17. Not redundant with other Test Cases;
  18. Repeatable and reusable;
  19. Minimize technical support;
  20. Written with the help of Test Case design methods;
  21. Allows isolation and identification of defects;
  22. Makesdefects obvious; and
  23. Assure quality.

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Hendrik Darony Fokkens

IT Director | Digital Transformation | Innovation | Systems Development

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In addition of all these above tips, its very important to create and follow the standards that have been agreed as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA)...

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