202-book-pragmatic-unit-testing

202-book-pragmatic-unit-testing is a cursor rule for Cursor from jabrena/jbang-mcp-examples. It costs 339 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Java testing rules based on the book Pragmatic Unit Testing. They describe what to test, how to check edge cases and failures, and what makes tests dependable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when writing or reviewing Java code to plan unit tests, check boundaries and error conditions, verify performance expectations, and run tests during development and before committing.
Why use it?
They help catch broken behavior early and make tests automatic, thorough, repeatable, independent, and professional.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use them when writing or reviewing Java code to plan unit tests, check boundaries and error conditions, verify performance expectations, and run tests during development and before committing.

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Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 339 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 339 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00339 $0.00339
Opus 5 $0.00169 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00068 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00034 $0.00034

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4836b8c602f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

202-book-pragmatic-unit-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 10d ago.

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/202-book-pragmatic-unit-testing.mdc · 38 lines

What it actually says

Pragmatic Unit Testing: Summary

General Principles:

  • Test anything that might break Test everything that does break
  • New code is guilty until proven innocent Write at least as much test code as production code
  • Run local tests with each compile
  • Run all tests before check-in to repository

Questions to Ask:

  • If the code ran correctly, how would I know?
  • How am I going to test this? What else can go wrong? Could this same kind of problem happen anywhere else?
  • What to Test: Use Your RIGHT-BICEP Are the results right?
  • Are all the boundary conditions CORRECT? Can you check inverse relationships?
  • Can you cross-check results using other means?
  • Can you force error conditions to happen? Are performance characteristics within bounds?

Good tests are A TRIP

  • Automatic
  • Thorough
  • Repeatable
  • Independent Professional
  • Conformance

CORRECT Boundary Conditions

  • Does the value conform to an expected format?
  • Ordering — Is the set of values ordered or unordered as appropriate?
  • Range — Is the value within reasonable minimum and maximum values?
  • Reference - Does the code reference anything external that isn't under direct control of the code itself?
  • Existence - Does the value exist? (e.g., is non-null, non-zero, present in a set, etc.)
  • Cardinality - Are there exactly enough values?
  • Time (absolute and relative) - Is everything happening in order? At the right time? In time?
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. 10d ago First seen · 38 lines · 339 tokens per session scan A 4836b8c602f9

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202-book-pragmatic-unit-testing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jabrena/jbang-mcp-examples (1 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 339 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5. 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.