Even as binary and ternary cements become the norm of the cement industry, standard tests for quality control and evaluations of cements and the components blended in them remain largely unchanged from what were developed for ordinary Portland cements.While some mineral additives, e.g.limestone, cannot be tested using pozzolanicity tests, the results from other blends depends heavily on testing, production and processing conditions.Furthermore, while test methods are available to evaluate individual components of cements,methods to evaluate the interaction between the components are not available.This paper presents various methods being used to evaluate cements and mineral additives and their suitability for application to ternary cements.Adaptations to take future cements into account and to understand their potential in ternary blended cements are also suggested in this study.