Many of our clients and course attendees ask about templates. We have many templates posted on our Basic Library and our Advanced Library. A few worth particular mention are:
- Test case templates
- Test plan template and IEEE 829 test plan template
- Quality risk category checklist (a good start for a quality risk analysis template)
- Omninet quality risk analysis (an example which can be converted into a template)
- Rothman’s test strategy template
- Testing best practices
The last one isn’t actually a template, but it’s something many people find interesting.
If there’s some other template you need, search the Basic Library and Advanced Library. If you still don’t find it, post a comment here on the blog letting the readers and me know what you’re looking for. Maybe someone can help.
Remember, though, a template is not an excuse to turn your brain off. Be sure to use templates thoughtfully.
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Rex Black is President of RBCS (
Hi Rex,
It is great to have those templates!
What I was always missing is sample test cases for business domains as the banking industry, insurance industry or oil and gas industry etc…. or at least specific test case samples for “date fields”, “email fields”, and some standard fields regarding IEEE or ISO . Some kind of a Catalog of test cases… So that the Tester should not always reinvent the wheel… and design test cases every time for a “date field”. That is why I would love to have something like that to be able to reuse them…
Thanks Gary.
Hi Gary–
Yes, that would be quite useful. There are some high-level guidelines (e.g., Whittaker’s “How to Break Software” series of books or Marick’s “Craft of Software Testing”) and some books with case studies (e.g., my own “Critical Testing Processes” book), but not a compendium of standard tests to run against certain types of fields. An interesting idea.
Regards,
Rex