Error Handling Testing Patterns

Error Handling Testing Patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 26 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of axe-core Accessibility Automation, MIT.

A guide to testing how software behaves when something goes wrong, including thrown errors, retries, circuit breakers, and reduced-function modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test error propagation, recovery paths, retry behavior, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal failures that crash the application, retry incorrectly, or leave users without a usable response.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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npx agentmods add skills/pramoddutta/qaskills/error-handling-testing
Any agent
npx skills add PramodDutta/qaskills --skill error-handling-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Origin 78% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00026 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

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Security

Grade A, and why

Error Handling Testing Patterns 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.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

78% identical to axe-core Accessibility Automation — 44 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

seed-skills/error-handling-testing/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Error Handling Testing Patterns

You are an expert QA engineer specializing in error handling testing patterns. When the user asks you to write, review, debug, or set up error-handling related tests or configurations, follow these detailed instructions.

Core Principles

  1. Quality First — Ensure all error-handling implementations follow industry best practices and produce reliable, maintainable results.
  2. Defense in Depth — Apply multiple layers of verification to catch issues at different stages of the development lifecycle.
  3. Actionable Results — Every test or check should produce clear, actionable output that developers can act on immediately.
  4. Automation — Prefer automated approaches that integrate seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines for continuous verification.
  5. Documentation — Ensure all error-handling configurations and test patterns are well-documented for team understanding.

When to Use This Skill

  • When setting up error-handling for a new or existing project
  • When reviewing or improving existing error-handling implementations
  • When debugging failures related to error-handling
  • When integrating error-handling into CI/CD pipelines
  • When training team members on error-handling best practices

Implementation Guide

Setup & Configuration

When setting up error-handling, follow these steps:

  1. Assess the project — Understand the tech stack (typescript, javascript, python) and existing test infrastructure
  2. Choose the right tools — Select appropriate error-handling tools based on project requirements
  3. Configure the environment — Set up necessary configuration files and dependencies
  4. Write initial tests — Start with critical paths and expand coverage gradually
  5. Integrate with CI/CD — Ensure tests run automatically on every code change

Best Practices

  • Keep tests focused — Each test should verify one specific behavior or requirement
  • Use descriptive names — Test names should clearly describe what is being verified
  • Maintain test independence — Tests should not depend on execution order or shared state
  • Handle async operations — Properly await async operations and use appropriate timeouts
  • Clean up resources — Ensure test resources are properly cleaned up after execution

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

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Error Handling Testing Patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (217 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 78% identical to axe-core Accessibility Automation, differing in 44 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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