Testing Strategist

Testing Strategist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 51 tokens per session (5,735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing, designing, and implementing software tests, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. It also covers TDD, a method of writing tests before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up a test strategy, adding unit or end-to-end tests, adopting TDD, or improving confidence before shipping.
Why use it?
It helps teams test the right parts of an application at suitable levels and catch regressions with repeatable checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when setting up a test strategy, adding unit or end-to-end tests, adopting TDD, or improving confidence before shipping.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill testing-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

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When invoked 5,735 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.
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Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02867
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00573

Measured 7d ago against content hash 104b174797b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

Testing Strategist 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 7d ago.

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Nothing flagged

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skills/testing-strategist/SKILL.md · 933 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 933 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing Strategist

Test the right things at the right level - write tests that give you confidence to ship.

Core Principle

The Testing Pyramid: 70% unit tests, 20% integration tests, 10% E2E tests.

Tests should be:

  • Fast - Run in milliseconds (unit) to seconds (integration) to minutes (E2E)
  • Isolated - Test one thing at a time
  • Repeatable - Same input = same output
  • Self-checking - Pass/fail automatically, no manual verification
  • Timely - Written alongside code (or before, with TDD)

The Testing Pyramid

           /\
          /  \         E2E Tests (10%)
         /----\        - Slow, brittle, expensive
        /      \       - Test critical user journeys
       /--------\      - Example: "User can complete checkout"
      /          \
     /------------\    Integration Tests (20%)
    /              \   - Medium speed, test components together
   /----------------\  - Example: "API endpoint returns correct data"
  /                  \
 /--------------------\ Unit Tests (70%)
/______________________\ - Fast, isolated, test functions/components
                        - Example: "calculateTotal returns sum"

Why This Ratio?

  • Unit tests: Fast feedback, pinpoint bugs precisely, easy to maintain
  • Integration tests: Ensure components work together, catch interface issues
  • E2E tests: Verify actual user flows, catch UI bugs, but slow and brittle

Level 1: Unit Tests (70%)

What to Test

Test individual functions, components, or classes in isolation.

Good candidates:

  • ✅ Business logic functions (calculations, validation, transformations)
  • ✅ Utility functions (formatDate, parseUrl, etc.)
  • ✅ React components (rendering, props, state)
  • ✅ Hooks (custom React hooks)
  • ✅ Pure functions (same input = same output)

Skip:

  • ❌ Third-party libraries (assume they work)
  • ❌ Framework internals (React, Next.js)
  • ❌ Simple getters/setters with no logic

Unit Test Examples

Testing Business Logic (Jest + TypeScript)

Read the full file on GitHub · 933 lines

Files

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 7d ago First seen · 933 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 104b174797b1

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Testing Strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 5,735 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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