testing

A set of rules for writing and running Python tests with pytest, a tool for checking that code behaves as expected. It covers test layout, fixtures, mocked outside services, edge cases, errors, and coverage reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test normal inputs, empty or unusual values, expected errors, and calls to outside services in Python projects.
Why use it?
It gives tests a consistent structure and prevents them from depending on real networks or databases, which can make results slow or unreliable.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/humzakt/dev-starter-kit/testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humzakt/dev-starter-kit

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 270 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash c9b88bd98986, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/testing.mdc · 44 lines

What it actually says

Testing Rules

Structure

  • File: tests/test_<module_name>.py
  • Class: Test<ModuleName>
  • Method: test_<function_name>[_<scenario>]

Patterns

  • Use pytest fixtures for setup/teardown
  • Mock external dependencies — no real network calls, no real database queries
  • Use unittest.mock.patch or pytest-mock for mocking
  • Use tmp_path fixture for temporary files

What to Test

  • Happy path (expected inputs → expected outputs)
  • Edge cases (empty inputs, None, boundary values, large inputs)
  • Error cases (invalid inputs → appropriate exceptions)
  • Integration points (verify correct calls to external dependencies)

What NOT to Test

  • Private methods directly (test through public API)
  • Third-party library internals
  • Exact log messages (test behavior, not messages)

Running Tests

# All tests
pytest tests/ -v

# Single file
pytest tests/test_module.py -v

# Single test
pytest tests/test_module.py::TestModule::test_function -v

# With coverage
pytest tests/ -v --cov=src --cov-report=term-missing
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c9b88bd98986

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository humzakt/dev-starter-kit (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 270 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.