A simple test case management document

Recently many of my fellow colleagues and friends ask me for a simple test case management document and I gave them. So I thought of this post, lets share it here so if anybody need any information about basic test case management document so they can find here.

Before starting it I want you all to know that this is a very simple syntax, considering only those fields whose are necessary and avoiding others. Though this syntax can vary organization to organization but although it will give you an idea.

A spread sheet can be used to manage your test scenarios/ cases. A test scenario will always have one or more test cases. Its a good practice to break scenarios as small as possible while maintaining a test document.

Each scenario will contain following columns and each row will represent one test case.
- Serial Number(To track down test cases)
- Action(Action need to perform for that particular test case)
- Data(If any data is needed to perform the action of that case)
- Expected Output(Output which is expected for the action)
- Actual Output(Output actually given by the action)
- Result(Can be only Pass or Fail, nothing else)
- Comments(If any comment needed to add for the case)
- Defect(If the result is fail then you should give the link of the reported defect of your issue tracker)

Example:

Test Scenario: Log in