diff --git a/tests/validate-templates.sh b/tests/validate-templates.sh
index f8442668..6c6d96b4 100755
--- a/tests/validate-templates.sh
+++ b/tests/validate-templates.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ERROR_COUNT=0; 
 
+echo "Validating AWS CloudFormation templates..."
+
 # Loop through the YAML templates in this repository
 for TEMPLATE in $(find . -name '*.yaml'); do 
 
     # Validate the template with CloudFormation
     ERRORS=$(aws cloudformation validate-template --template-body file://$TEMPLATE 2>&1 >/dev/null); 
-    
     if [ "$?" -gt "0" ]; then 
-
         ((ERROR_COUNT++));
-        echo "$TEMPLATE: $ERRORS";
+        echo "[fail] $TEMPLATE: $ERRORS";
+    else 
+        echo "[pass] $TEMPLATE";
     fi; 
     
 done; 
@@ -18,4 +20,4 @@ done;
 echo "$ERROR_COUNT template validation error(s)"; 
 if [ "$ERROR_COUNT" -gt 0 ]; 
     then exit 1; 
-fi
\ No newline at end of file
+fi