Geotextiles are human made new construction materials that have influenced the construction in the areas of geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, and hydraulic engineering, etc. Geotextiles perform seven major functions: separation, reinforcement, filtration, drainage, liquid barrier, protection, and erosion control. In the design, selected geotextile should satisfy the requirements for the applied functions and its associated contract specifications. For strength consideration, tensile strength is the most important material property for geotextile that can be evaluated by various types tensile strength tests. The most commonly utilized geotextile tensile test methods are narrow strip tensile test, grab tensile test, and wide-width tensile test. This paper discusses the scope, significance and use, conditioning, apparatus, procedure, sampling, and calculations of these test methods. The typical problem that associated with geotextile contract specification is also discussed.