testing

testing is a cursor rule for Cursor from popoloni/non_deterministic_sw_eng. It costs 0 tokens per session (422 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project testing rule covering test structure, coverage targets, mocking, integration tests, and naming. Mocking replaces a real dependency with a controlled test version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing table-driven utility tests, testing API endpoints, measuring coverage, mocking modules, and using MSW to simulate API responses.
Why use it?
It defines a shared testing standard so new code is checked consistently. It also separates fast unit tests from API integration tests that exercise connected parts.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Writing table-driven utility tests, testing API endpoints, measuring coverage, mocking modules, and using MSW to simulate API responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/popoloni/non_deterministic_sw_eng/testing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/popoloni/non_deterministic_sw_eng

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 422 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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

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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00422
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00169
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6bd89a163d1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

04-context-engineering/cursor-rules/testing.mdc · 72 lines

What it actually says

Testing Guidelines

When writing tests for this project:

Test Structure

Use table-driven tests for utilities and pure functions:

describe('formatCurrency', () => {
  const testCases = [
    { input: 100, expected: '$1.00', description: 'whole dollars' },
    { input: 99, expected: '$0.99', description: 'cents only' },
    { input: 0, expected: '$0.00', description: 'zero' },
    { input: -100, expected: '-$1.00', description: 'negative' },
  ];

  testCases.forEach(({ input, expected, description }) => {
    it(`handles ${description}`, () => {
      expect(formatCurrency(input)).toBe(expected);
    });
  });
});

Coverage Requirements

  • Minimum 80% coverage for new code
  • 100% coverage for utility functions
  • Integration tests for all API endpoints

Mocking

// Use vi.mock for module mocking
vi.mock('@/services/api', () => ({
  api: {
    users: {
      get: vi.fn(),
    },
  },
}));

// Use MSW for API mocking in integration tests
import { rest } from 'msw';
import { server } from '@/tests/server';

server.use(
  rest.get('/api/users/:id', (req, res, ctx) => {
    return res(ctx.json({ id: req.params.id, name: 'Test User' }));
  })
);

Naming Conventions

  • Test files: *.test.ts or *.spec.ts
  • Test descriptions: Start with verb ("renders", "returns", "throws")
  • Use describe blocks to group related tests

Reference Implementation

See @src/utils/tests/formatters.test.ts for examples.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6bd89a163d1c

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testing is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository popoloni/non_deterministic_sw_eng (7 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 422 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.