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Guidelines for implementing effective and maintainable tests.
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Use when decomposing tasks into parallel sub-tasks or spawning sub-agents. Vendor-agnostic core; load a per-vendor reference for concrete tool names, directory conventions, and invocation syntax.
Use when performing Verification-Driven Development with adversarial approach. Actively challenge assumptions and find weak spots.
Use when performing VDD adversarial review with an opt-in sarcastic, provocative delivery style — a stylistic skin over vdd-adversarial mechanics (exhaustive reporting + objective bar).
Performance critic in adversarial style (optional sarcastic skin). Part of VDD Multi-Adversarial pipeline.
Use when performing OWASP security critique in adversarial style (optional sarcastic skin). Part of VDD Multi-Adversarial pipeline.
Use when performing security vulnerability assessment (OWASP, secrets, dependencies, IaC, LLM, API, MCP/agentic) or when "thinking like a hacker" to find exploits.
Based on SOC occupation classification
| name | testing-best-practices |
| description | Guidelines for implementing effective and maintainable tests. |
| tier | 2 |
| version | 1.1 |
/opt/projects/.../venv).test_shoud_return_error_when_invalid_input.src/auth -> tests/auth).examples/pytest_structure.pyexamples/jest_structure.jsassets/templates/test_boilerplate.py to start new test files quickly.