130-java-testing-strategies

130-java-testing-strategies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to planning better Java unit tests using checklists for correct results, edge cases, errors, performance, and test quality. Unit tests check small pieces of code independently from outside systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding which Java unit tests to add or reviewing whether existing tests cover normal inputs, limits, failures, ordering, timing, and independence.
Why use it?
It reduces missed boundary conditions and tests that are unreliable, shared, or too focused on implementation details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jabrena/plinth/130-java-testing-strategies
Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 130-java-testing-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,167 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 $0.00096 $0.01167
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00117

Measured yesterday against content hash 2d6797c4d70a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

130-java-testing-strategies 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/130-java-testing-strategies/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Java testing strategies

Apply proven testing strategies (RIGHT-BICEP, A-TRIP, CORRECT) to design and verify Java unit tests.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • RIGHT-BICEP: Key questions to guide test creation — Right results, Boundary conditions, Inverse relationships, Cross-checks, Error conditions, Performance
  • A-TRIP: Characteristics of good tests — Automatic, Thorough, Repeatable, Independent, Professional
  • CORRECT: Boundary condition verification — Conformance, Ordering, Range, Reference, Existence, Cardinality, Time

Constraints

Before applying any test strategy changes, ensure the project compiles. If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until resolved. After applying improvements, run full verification.

  • MANDATORY: Run ./mvnw compile or mvn compile before applying any change
  • SAFETY: If compilation fails, stop immediately and do not proceed — compilation failure is a blocking condition
  • VERIFY: Run ./mvnw clean verify or mvn clean verify after applying improvements
  • BEFORE APPLYING: Read only the testing-strategy references selected by the user's concern before changing tests
  • FOCUSED ROUTING: For missing behavior coverage or RIGHT-BICEP requests, read references/130-java-testing-strategies-right-bicep.md by default
  • FOCUSED ROUTING: For flaky, brittle, manual, order-dependent, shared-state, or maintainability requests, read references/130-java-testing-strategies-a-trip.md by default
  • FOCUSED ROUTING: For boundary-condition or CORRECT requests, read references/130-java-testing-strategies-correct.md by default
  • BROAD REVIEW: For broad test-strategy reviews, combine RIGHT-BICEP, A-TRIP, and CORRECT references and categorize findings by technique
  • EDGE CASE: If the user goal is ambiguous, stop and ask a clarifying question before editing files or running project-wide commands
  • EDGE CASE: If required context, files, credentials, or tools are missing, report the blocker explicitly and ask whether to proceed with setup or fallback guidance
  • EDGE CASE: If requested changes conflict with project constraints or safety boundaries, explain the conflict and ask for user confirmation on the preferred trade-off

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 80 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 2d6797c4d70a

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130-java-testing-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,167 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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