testing-practices

A set of rules for writing tests beside the code they check and testing public behaviour. Tests are small checks that confirm software produces the expected results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose test locations and filenames, decide what exported functions and integration points to test, and avoid testing unused or private code.
Why use it?
It keeps tests close to the code, reduces fragile checks of internal implementation details, and focuses coverage on interfaces other code actually uses.

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/omril321/automated-notebooklm/testing-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/omril321/automated-notebooklm

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 474 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 $0.00474
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash b1407e5cba2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-practices 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 2d 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/testing-practices.mdc · 61 lines

What it actually says

Testing Best Practices

Test File Location

  • Place test files next to the files they test, not in separate test directories
  • Use naming conventions: filename.test.ts or filename.spec.ts
  • For complex modules, you can use __tests__/ subdirectories within the same folder

What to Test

  • Public API: Test the external interface of your modules
  • Exported functions: Only test functions that are actually used elsewhere
  • Behavior: Focus on what the code does, not how it does it
  • Integration points: Test how modules work together

What NOT to Test

  • Internal implementation details: Don't test private/internal functions
  • Unused functions: If a function isn't exported or used anywhere else, it shouldn't exist
  • Implementation specifics: Don't test internal variables, private methods, or implementation details that could change without affecting the public API

Guidelines

  • Remove or refactor unused functions instead of testing them
  • Keep tests focused on the public contract
  • If you need to test internal details, consider if they should be exposed or if the module design needs refactoring
  • Test behavior and outcomes, not implementation steps

Running the tests

When running the tests for a single time without watching for changes, use the following command:

yarn test:run

Example Structure

src/
  services/
    audio-stitcher/
      index.ts
      index.test.ts        ✅ Test next to implementation
      utils.ts
      utils.test.ts        ✅ Test next to implementation
    gemini.ts
    gemini.test.ts         ✅ Test next to implementation

References

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. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 474 tokens per session scan A b1407e5cba2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository omril321/automated-notebooklm (15 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 474 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 2026-08-30.