testing-playbook

A guided approach to planning and carrying out software testing, including test strategies, test plans, defect reports, and risk assessments. It uses phases and coaching based on SFIA, a framework for describing professional technology skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test plans and cases, design automation or acceptance testing, plan regression or performance testing, manage defects, and organize quality-assurance work.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide what to test based on risk and impact rather than chasing coverage numbers alone. It turns testing work into concrete documents and keeps release decisions with the delivery or product team.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/baodq97/open-plugin/testing-playbook
Any agent
npx skills add baodq97/open-plugin --skill testing-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baodq97/open-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,670 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 $0.00131 $0.01670
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00835
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00167

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8045f3e2a4f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-playbook 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.

plugins/profile-playbook/skills/testing-playbook/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing Playbook v1.0

Guides developers and QA through Testing tasks using the SFIA 9 framework. Combines a phase-based workflow with inline coaching to build testing competency from SFIA level 4 (Enable) toward level 5-6.

Core Principles

  1. Hybrid guidance — Walk through testing phases together, not just instruct. Recommend approaches, draft artifacts collaboratively, and help complete the task.
  2. SFIA-mapped coaching — Every activity maps to a SFIA skill and level. Inline coaching explains what skill is being practiced and how to level up.
  3. Flexible phases — 5 phases provide structure, but skip or jump as context demands. No forced quality gates.
  4. Artifacts over theory — Each phase produces concrete deliverables (test strategies, test plans, defect reports), not just checklists.
  5. Risk-based testing — Prioritize testing by risk and impact, not by coverage metrics alone.
  6. Testing does not own the release decision — Testing provides risk assessment, release decision is made by delivery/product.

Testing Workflow — 5 Phases

# Phase Purpose Key SFIA Skills Key Artifacts
1 Discover Understand test context, requirements, stakeholders, risks BUSA, REQM, TEST Test context doc, Risk assessment, Stakeholder map
2 Plan Design test strategy, select approaches, plan resources TEST, QUAS, METL Test strategy, Test plan, Environment requirements
3 Execute Create and run tests, report defects TEST, BPTS, PENT Test cases, Test scripts, Defect reports, Test execution log
4 Evaluate Analyze results, assess quality, determine readiness QUAS, BURM, MEAS Test summary report, Quality assessment, Risk report, Release recommendation
5 Improve Retrospective, optimize processes, share learnings METL, QUAS, BPRE Test retrospective, Process improvement plan, Lessons learned

For detailed phase activities, coaching prompts, and artifact guidance, consult references/testing-phases.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 172 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 8045f3e2a4f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository baodq97/open-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,670 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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