Test cases can be written and captured in a variety of formats, such as being stored in text files, Word documents, Excel workbooks, or by utilizing specialized test capture tools. The most prevalent way, however, is creating test cases in Excel sheets and loading them into the test management tools such as HP ALM, Jira and so on.
Apart from the detailed test execution steps, a test case can also have a variety of support documents or artifacts attached, such as the following:
- A prototype document that testers want to refer to during the execution phase
- User credentials
- A set of SQL queries and/or procedures that are needed for test execution
- Details regarding the scheduled jobs
- Links to documents that can be referred to during execution
Additionally, if the same test case has been utilized for one or more releases, then it can contain...
