testing-workflow

A guide for running and debugging the test suites in a PHP service project. It covers unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, Bash behavior tests, code-coverage checks, and mutation testing, which checks whether tests detect deliberately introduced bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose commands such as `make unit-tests`, `make integration-tests`, or `make behat`. It also covers preparing the test database and rerunning the smallest failing suite.
Why use it?
It provides a suitable test order for small changes, database changes, and risky refactors. It also gives a consistent way to investigate failures and record tests that were not run.

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/vilnacrm-org/php-service-template/testing-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add VilnaCRM-Org/php-service-template --skill testing-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VilnaCRM-Org/php-service-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 302 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 $0.00016 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 55c5037c272a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-workflow 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.

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.

.claude/skills/testing-workflow/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Testing Workflow

Test Surfaces

  • make bats - Bash and Makefile behavior
  • make unit-tests - Unit suite
  • make integration-tests - Integration suite
  • make behat - BDD and end-to-end scenarios
  • make tests-with-coverage - PHPUnit with Clover output
  • make infection - Mutation testing

Setup

For anything that touches database-backed behavior:

make setup-test-db

Practical Order

Small change

make unit-tests

Persistence or request-flow change

make setup-test-db
make unit-tests
make integration-tests
make behat

Risky refactor

make setup-test-db
make unit-tests
make integration-tests
make behat
make infection

Debugging Notes

  • Re-run the smallest failing suite first.
  • If only integration or Behat fails, confirm the database was recreated with make setup-test-db.
  • When mutation testing fails, improve tests rather than relaxing Infection.
  • If Makefile behavior is changed, run make bats.

Done Criteria

  • The changed behavior is covered by at least one relevant suite.
  • The suite that failed has been rerun successfully.
  • Any unrun suites are explicitly called out in the final summary.
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 · 64 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 55c5037c272a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository VilnaCRM-Org/php-service-template (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 302 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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