Auto-generate test cases from user stories

Omar Patel · QA Lead Last reviewed 2025-02-28

The problem

QA engineers spend ~30% of their time translating Jira stories into test cases.

Business context

Pension administration releases are change-controlled; gaps in test coverage delay deployments.

The solution

GitHub Copilot Chat with a prompt template that produces Gherkin scenarios per acceptance criterion. QA reviews and tunes edge cases.

Outcome & impact

Time saved

~8 hours per sprint per QA

Outcome

Test authoring time cut by ~60%. Coverage improved on edge cases QAs typically miss when tired.

Reusable assets

Prompt

Given this user story and acceptance criteria, generate Gherkin scenarios. One scenario per AC plus one negative-path scenario per AC. Use Given/When/Then strictly.

Gherkin template(script)
Sample sprint output(screenshot)

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