Testing strategy
Skill nledford/engineering-review-board/skills/testing-strategy
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Review test strategy, confidence gaps, TDD and BDD fit, flaky tests, boundary coverage, and suite maintainability. Use for a risk-focused audit of tests or test plans; do not use to write a single test, debug an active failure, or run a routine TDD loop.
SKILL.md
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Testing Strategy Skill
Use this skill when the primary task is assessing whether a test suite or test
plan provides the right confidence. Always load
review-verification-protocol
before reporting findings. For repository change reviews, also load
code-review.
Use test-driven-development for
Red-Green-Refactor implementation, and systematic-debugging for an active
unexplained test failure.
Workflow
- Identify the behaviors, contracts, invariants, risks, and failure modes the tests need to protect.
- Map existing unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, property, and manual checks to those risks.
- Find confidence gaps, redundant coverage, brittle implementation coupling, over-mocking, flakiness, unclear fixtures, and slow feedback paths.
- Recommend the narrowest test level that proves each missing behavior, including boundary tests for architecture-critical constraints.
- Validate claims with test code and runner evidence. Record skipped checks, environmental limitations, and residual quality risk.
Output
Return prioritized findings and a risk-focused improvement plan with evidence, recommended test levels, skipped validation, and residual risk.
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most roadmap strategy skills give
Counted across 591 of the 672 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
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- base price on perceived value, not costin 15 of 591, across 4 files
- compact after finalizing a planin 14 of 591, across 9 files
- differentiate tiers using features, limits, or supportin 14 of 591, across 3 files
- use Van Westendorp to find acceptable price rangein 13 of 591, across 2 files
- use MaxDiff to identify highly valued featuresin 13 of 591, across 2 files
- map topics to buyer journey stagesin 12 of 591, across 6 files
- Extract domain capabilities and classify subdomainsin 11 of 591, across 1 file
- Define bounded contexts around consistency and ownershipin 11 of 591, across 1 file
- Establish a ubiquitous language glossary and anti-termsin 11 of 591, across 1 file
- Capture context boundaries in ADRs before implementationin 11 of 591, across 1 file
- Open the strategic design template if neededin 11 of 591, across 1 file
Said here and by no other author read
- load the review-verification protocol before reporting
- load the code-review skill for repository change reviews
- identify behaviors, contracts, invariants, and risks
- map existing checks to those risks
- find confidence gaps and slow feedback paths
- recommend the narrowest test level per missing behavior
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once.