QA Artifact

Decision Table Testing Example

Test design artifact showing a decision table for form-submission rules, mapping combinations of required and optional fields to expected outcomes.

Artifact content

Public sample: Google Sheet

This artifact demonstrates Decision Table Testing on the Conduit New Article form. The table maps combinations of filled and unfilled inputs to the expected system response instead of relying on informal intuition.

  • Conditions covered: article title, article description, article body, and tags
  • Decision logic: combinations with one false input, two false inputs, and three false inputs are mapped to either publish success or validation error
  • Expected results: each combination leads to a clearly defined outcome such as PA (publish article) or ER (show error)

This is useful because decision tables are a strong way to test business rules and form logic where multiple conditions interact. They make coverage explicit and help avoid gaps that are easy to miss in free-form testing.

Together with the other artifacts for Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, and Pairwise Testing, this example strengthens the test-design section of the portfolio with concrete, public evidence.

Artifact details

Type: Test Design Techniques

Objective: Show practical use of decision table testing for multi-condition form logic and expected outcome mapping.

Coverage: Field-filled / field-empty combinations for title, description, article body, and tags with expected results for publish or validation error.

Tools

  • Decision Table Testing

Recruiter note: Demonstrates rule-based condition coverage for interacting form inputs and explicit expected-result mapping.