cpp-test-authoring

cpp-test-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-writing guide for two HMCTS Crime Common Platform repositories: one for browser-based user-flow tests and one for API integration tests. It covers the existing Java, Maven, Cucumber, Selenium, JUnit 5 and REST Assured patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or extend Cucumber scenarios, step definitions, page objects and browser tests, or to add JUnit 5 and REST Assured API integration tests.
Why use it?
It helps new tests fit the repositories’ established structure instead of introducing inconsistent approaches. It also clarifies which testing patterns apply to the user interface and which apply to APIs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hmcts-sdlc-orchestrator plugin — 10 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace/cpp-test-authoring
Any agent
npx skills add hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace --skill cpp-test-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hmcts-sdlc-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 9 agents.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00077 $0.02137
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00214

Measured 3d ago against content hash accbd6941c46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cpp-test-authoring 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 3d ago.

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plugins/agents/hmcts-sdlc-orchestrator/skills/cpp-test-authoring/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CPP Test Authoring

Guides contributors through the conventions of the two HMCTS Crime Common Platform test repositories so new tests slot into existing patterns instead of forking them.

Repos covered:

  • cpp-ui-e2e-serenity — UI end-to-end (Serenity BDD 4.x + Cucumber 6 + Selenium, Java 17, Maven)
  • cpp-apitests — API integration tests (JUnit 5 + REST Assured, Java 17, Maven)

When to Use

  • User asks to add or extend a UI E2E test, Cucumber feature, step definition, or page object
  • User asks to add or extend an API integration test (*IT.java)
  • User asks "how do I add a test for X" while inside either repo
  • Reviewing whether a proposed test follows the established pattern (defer the actual PR review to review-pr)

When NOT to Use

  • Authoring unit tests inside a runtime service (cpp-context-*, cpp-mbd-*) — that's part of the service's own conventions
  • Writing or modifying Spring Boot service code — see springboot-service-from-template
  • Pipeline failures — defer to pipeline-debug
  • WCAG audits — defer to accessibility-check

Prerequisites

Before writing test code:

  1. Story has acceptance criteria — apply write-acceptance-criteria if missing
  2. For UI scenarios, the Gherkin draft exists — apply generate-bdd-specs if missing
  3. Jira ticket is linked (hard rule from claude/CLAUDE.md)
  4. No PII, case data, or court reference numbers in any planned fixture, feature, or assertion (hard rule)

Step 1 — Identify the Repo and Test Layer

Repo Layer Marker files
cpp-ui-e2e-serenity UI E2E serenity.properties, azure-pipelines-dev01_*.yml, src/test/resources/features/
cpp-apitests API integration apitests-pipeline.yaml, api-integration-test/ module, *IT.java suffixed tests

If neither marker is present, stop — you're in the wrong repo.

Step 2 — UI E2E: Authoring a Serenity / Cucumber Test

Directory map

cpp-ui-e2e-serenity/
├── src/test/java/com/
│   ├── pageobjects/         # One class per page/section; holds locators + interactions
│   ├── stepdefinitions/     # Cucumber glue; extends the relevant page object
│   └── runner/              # TestRunner.java, RetryTestRunner.java
├── src/test/resources/
│   ├── features/<domain>/   # *.feature files (Gherkin)
│   ├── locators/custom-locators.json
│   └── testdata/<domain>/
└── serenity.properties

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 156 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A accbd6941c46

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cpp-test-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository hmcts/agentic-plugins-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,137 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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