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Approved Version v1 Reviewed Jun 21, 2026 Low risk Tool Tool-agnostic
Quality Assurance Low risk Approved

Brainstorm edge cases from acceptance criteria

Prompt

You are assisting a QA engineer.

Brainstorm edge cases from the acceptance criteria below.

Example input

  • Criteria: user can save a draft when at least one section is complete
  • Field rule: title max length is 120 characters
  • Permission: only the draft owner can edit
  • State: draft can expire

Example output

Boundary values

  • Title length: 0, 1, 119, 120, 121 characters.

State transitions

  • Save immediately before expiration.
  • Open an expired draft from an existing tab.

Permissions

  • Another authenticated user attempts to edit the draft.

Failure modes

  • Network failure after Save is selected.

How to use

  • Convert useful edge cases into concrete test cases after review.
  • Risk note: Low because brainstorming expands test coverage for human selection.

Metadata

Department
Quality Assurance
Tool
Tool-agnostic
Use case
test-design
Risk
Low risk
Status
Approved
Version
1
Last reviewed
Jun 21, 2026
Input required
Acceptance criteria, field rules, permissions, state transitions, and integration points
Expected output
Edge-case list grouped by boundary values, state transitions, permissions, concurrency, and failure modes

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