martinholovsky

sota-testing

martinholovsky/SOTA-skills/skills/sota-testing/SKILL.md

State-of-the-art software testing strategy and practice (2026) for designing test strategy, writing unit/integration/e2e tests, or auditing test suites. Covers suite shape (pyramid/trophy/honeycomb), test design quality (behavior-first, AAA, determinism, smells), test doubles (mocks/fakes/stubs), test data (builders over fixtures), real-dependency integration (Testcontainers-style), contract testing (Pact/consumer-driven), e2e/UI strategy (selectors, auto-waiting, flake economics), property-based testing, fuzzing, mutation testing, approval testing, and suite health/CI (flaky-test policy, coverage philosophy, sharding). Trigger keywords - testing, test strategy, unit test, integration test, e2e, end-to-end, coverage, flaky tests, TDD, contract testing, property-based, mocking, fixtures, snapshot test, mutation testing, fuzzing, BDD, Gherkin, given-when-then, acceptance criteria, security testing, WSTG, IDOR test, authz test, abuse case, DAST. Use for BOTH building and auditing test suites.