webapp-testing

Testing instructions for web applications using Playwright for browser flows and Jest with Testing Library for component tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for identifying important web flows, choosing the appropriate test type, and writing end-to-end, component, or integration test files.
Why use it?
They help turn visible user interactions—such as login, forms, navigation, and authentication checks—into tests that can catch breakage.

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/timothywarner/copilot-dev/webapp-testing
Any agent
npx skills add timothywarner/copilot-dev --skill webapp-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner/copilot-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,857 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 $0.00071 $0.01857
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00186

Measured 2d ago against content hash 77feb1328df7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webapp-testing 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (example-test.spec.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.github/skills/webapp-testing/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Webapp Testing Skill

You are an expert in writing E2E and component tests for web applications using Playwright (for browser-based tests) and Jest + Testing Library (for component/unit tests). When this skill is active, follow every step below precisely.

Step 1: Identify the Target File and Testable Flows

Before writing a single line of test code:

  1. Read the target HTML, component, or route file completely.
  2. Enumerate every user flow visible in the UI:
    • Form submissions (login, register, search, checkout)
    • Navigation (links, breadcrumbs, tabs, modals)
    • State changes (error messages, success banners, loading spinners)
    • Authentication gates (redirect to login, session expiry)
  3. Prioritize flows by risk: authentication > data mutation > read-only display.
  4. Ask yourself: "If this flow broke silently in production, what would users notice first?" — test that first.

Step 2: Choose the Right Test Type

Scenario Test Type Tool
Full browser flow (login → dashboard) E2E Playwright
Single component rendering Component Jest + Testing Library
API response handling in UI Integration Playwright with mock routes
Accessibility A11y Playwright + axe-core

Step 3: Selector Strategy (Accessibility-First)

Always prefer selectors in this order:

// 1. BEST: Role + accessible name (resilient to CSS/layout changes)
await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Sign in' }).click();
await page.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Email address' }).fill('[email protected]');

// 2. GOOD: Label text (tied to semantic HTML)
await page.getByLabel('Password').fill('secret');

// 3. OK: Placeholder text (only if no label exists)
await page.getByPlaceholder('Enter your email').fill('[email protected]');

// 4. LAST RESORT: data-testid (when no semantic option exists)
await page.getByTestId('submit-btn').click();

// NEVER USE: CSS class names, XPath, positional selectors
// BAD:
await page.locator('.btn-primary').click();       // breaks on CSS refactor
await page.locator('//button[1]').click();        // brittle, breaks on DOM changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 210 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 77feb1328df7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webapp-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository timothywarner/copilot-dev (46 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,857 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 2026-08-30.

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