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Review EXISTING test code for quality, smells, and testability issues. Detects test smells across six dimensions — readability, reliability, diagnostic value, design, AI-generated, and coverage — analyzes testability of application code, and backs the qualitative smells with mutation testing. Use when: "review my tests," "test quality audit," "test smells," "testability analysis," "are these tests any good." Not for: generating new tests — use `ai-test-generation`. Not for: testing AI features in your product — use `ai-system-testing`. Related: unit-testing, shift-left-testing, coverage-analysis, ai-test-generation.
Turn a vague bug report into a VERIFIED minimal reproduction and then a failing regression test, agent-driven end to end. Covers extracting the implicit repro from a thin report (env, build, steps, data), the reproduce-minimize-isolate-capture loop, git bisect to find the introducing commit, building a deterministic minimal repro (fixed seeds, frozen time, stubbed network), writing the failing regression test BEFORE the fix (red) and confirming the fix flips it green, and writing repro evidence back into the ticket. Distinguishes flaky-not-reproducible from environment-specific. Use when: "reproduce this bug," "minimal reproduction," "repro steps," "find the commit that broke it," "git bisect," "make the repro deterministic," "write a failing test for this bug," "regression test for a defect," "can't reproduce this bug." Not for: Classifying/deduplicating/severity-routing existing failures without reproducing them — that is ai-bug-triage. Generating tests from specs rather than from a defect — that is ai-test-generation. Related: ai-bug-triage, ai-test-generation, test-reliability, systematic-debugging, qa-project-context.
Scheduled probes that run CONTINUOUSLY after release. Covers probe design for critical user journeys, alerting integration, SLA validation, multi-region monitoring, and the boundary between QA and SRE. Use when: "synthetic monitoring," "uptime testing," "scheduled probes," "SLA validation," "availability monitoring," "post-deploy checks." Not for: safe-release techniques during rollout — use testing-in-production. Not for: designing tests from prod telemetry — use observability-driven-testing. Not for: a one-shot post-deploy smoke gate tied to a release — use release-readiness. Related: testing-in-production, release-readiness, performance-testing, qa-metrics.
Modernize test suites to use modern Swift Testing features or migrate from XCTest.
Validate database integrity, test migrations forward and backward, verify schema constraints, manage seed data, detect migration drift, and identify query performance issues. Covers PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB with Prisma, TypeORM, Drizzle, and SQLAlchemy, plus Testcontainers test databases. Use when: "database test," "migration test," "migration rollback," "rollback test," "data integrity," "SQL test," "schema validation," "seed data," "query performance," "Testcontainers." Not for: synthetic data generation/masking at scale — use test-data-management; Docker/IaC test-environment provisioning — use test-environments; SQL injection — use security-testing. Related: test-data-management, test-environments, security-testing, ci-cd-integration.
Plan verification and validation campaigns for simulation codes using manufactured solutions, canonical benchmark problems, grid/time refinement, uncertainty propagation, and pass/fail acceptance criteria. Use when an agent needs to prove a solver, model, or result is trustworthy rather than only plausible.
Design environment strategy for testing across dev, CI, preview, staging, and production — Docker Compose test infrastructure, multi-stage Dockerfiles, seed-data lifecycle, per-PR preview environments, production parity, and external-dependency stubbing at the HTTP boundary. Use when: "set up test environment," "docker-compose for tests," "per-PR preview environment," "staging parity," "spin up test infra," "environment tiers." Not for: choosing mock-vs-stub-vs-fake per dependency — use service-virtualization; factory and fixture data patterns — use test-data-management; pipeline/Actions config — use ci-cd-integration. Related: test-data-management, ci-cd-integration, contract-testing, service-virtualization.
Decision framework for isolating every external dependency in a test suite: when to use in-process mocks, HTTP stubs (MSW, WireMock), record-replay, fault injection (Toxiproxy), or ephemeral real services (Testcontainers), and how to enforce that no real calls escape in CI. Use when: "mock service," "stub API," "fake service," "WireMock," "MSW," "Toxiproxy," "test isolation," "dependency management," "stub an external API in CI." Not for: consumer-driven contract verification (Pact, broker) — use contract-testing; standing up a full Docker Compose env or seed data — use test-environments; broad resilience/game-day fault campaigns — use chaos-engineering. Related: contract-testing, test-environments, api-testing, test-data-management, chaos-engineering.
Test payment and checkout flows end to end against PSP sandboxes — Stripe first, with the general pattern for Adyen/Braintree/PayPal. Covers Stripe test-mode card numbers and their decline codes, the 3DS/SCA challenge flow and its nested-iframe handling in Playwright, test clocks for subscription/billing-cycle simulation, webhook testing (stripe listen/trigger, signature verification, idempotency), failed/retried payments and refunds, and never using real cards. Use when: "test Stripe checkout," "payment test," "3DS test," "test webhook signature," "test subscription renewal," "test clock," "refund test," "decline card test," "checkout E2E." Not for: General API contract testing of non-payment endpoints — api-testing. PCI-DSS/regulatory compliance audit — compliance-testing. Related: api-testing, playwright-automation, compliance-testing, test-data-management, qa-project-context.
Rebase E2E test snapshots based on failed tests from the PR comments.
Test quality guard - prevents testing mock behavior, production pollution with test-only methods, and mocking without understanding dependencies.
Flaky test fix pattern - replaces arbitrary timeouts with condition polling that waits for actual state changes.