awesome-copilot-for-testers

Maps requirements (PRD, user stories, acceptance criteria) to test coverage via a Requirements Traceability Matrix, exposing coverage gaps, risks, test levels, prioritization, and automation candidates. Use when mapping requirements to tests, checking coverage completeness for a PRD or user story, finding missing acceptance criteria, or building a risk-based regression strategy.

Analyzes technical debt in codebases, test suites, architecture, dependencies, and delivery workflows using observable signals. Use when auditing repository health, explaining slow delivery or flaky tests, prioritizing refactoring, or building an evidence-based remediation roadmap with risk, effort, and ROI. Use when user asks for technical debt analysis, repository audit, or refactor planning.

Writes and reviews API automation tests with Playwright Test, covering setup/teardown, assertions, data management, and hybrid API+UI flows. Use when creating backend API tests, contract checks, data-driven API coverage, API+UI hybrid workflows, or reviewing existing Playwright API suites.

Performs evidence-driven code review for pull requests, legacy modules, and quality-critical changes. Use when reviewing complex or multi-file changes, test automation suites, architectural refactors, or hot paths that need analysis of correctness, maintainability, security, performance, test quality, and operability risks. Provides structured feedback with severity-ranked findings, actionable recommendations, and clear rationale. For a fast sanity check of a small diff or single file, use the code-review skill instead.

Performs a quick, lightweight review of a small diff or single file, giving concise feedback on correctness, readability, tests, and obvious risks. Use when the user asks for a fast sanity-check review of a small change. For test-automation suites, architectural refactors, security-sensitive paths, or multi-file reviews, use the code-review-advanced skill instead.

Creates GitHub Copilot custom agents (`.agent.md`) for VS Code. Use when defining a specialized agent role, selecting a minimal toolset, referencing supporting skills, or shipping install-ready agent examples with clear boundaries and collaboration rules.

Creates GitHub Copilot hooks for VS Code using `hooks.json`, supporting scripts, and companion docs. Use when automating deterministic checks, pre/post tool policies, or reusable hook packs that need safe defaults, observability, and clear installation guidance.

Creates GitHub Copilot skills with reusable workflows, companion resources, and validation gates. Use when packaging repeatable expertise into a `SKILL.md` folder, deciding what belongs in the skill body versus resources, or producing install-ready skill examples for a team or collection.

Designs risk-based functional test plans, manual test cases, regression slices, and automation handoff packs from requirements, URLs, or exploratory notes. Use when preparing manual QA coverage before automation, turning feature descriptions into scenario catalogs, or converting exploratory findings into structured test assets.

Produces production-ready Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for software systems and AI-powered features, with clear problem framing, measurable outcomes, scoped functionality, testable requirements, and explicit risks. Use when the user wants to write a PRD, define requirements, plan a feature, or turn a vague product idea into an implementation-ready specification.

Creates, reviews, and modernizes static code analysis setups for Node.js and TypeScript repositories, covering ESLint flat config, typescript-eslint, tsconfig, Prettier, import sorting, Husky, lint-staged, package.json quality scripts, and CI quality gates. Use when setting up or auditing linting, formatting, type-checking, commit hooks, or GitHub Actions quality checks in a TypeScript project.

Analyzes diffs, changed files, hotfixes, and release candidates to identify where regression risk spreads and what must be retested first. Use when scoping retest after a change, reviewing QA impact for a pull request, or building a minimal confidence suite for release validation.

Performs webpage and user-flow accessibility audits with WCAG 2.2 guidance, manual verification checklists, prioritized remediation output, and stakeholder-ready summaries. Use when auditing accessibility on a URL, triaging suspected a11y issues, or producing technical findings with practical next steps.

Designs realistic, boundary-heavy, and role-aware test data packs for manual and automated testing. Use when a feature needs deliberate inputs and fixtures before execution, when edge-case values keep being improvised, or when automation needs stable example data with setup notes.

Transforms rough tester notes, screenshots, console output, or observed behavior into reproducible defect reports with severity, evidence, and follow-up guidance. Use when logging bugs, triaging intermittent issues, or rewriting vague defect notes into developer-ready reports.

Compares implementation evidence against acceptance criteria and shows what is met, partial, missing, or untestable. Use when checking feature readiness, preparing QA sign-off, or turning criteria into a concrete verification matrix without inventing missing behavior.

Creates GitHub Copilot instruction files for VS Code, including repository guidance and scoped `.instructions.md` rules. Use when encoding project conventions, choosing `applyTo` patterns, or shipping install-ready instruction examples with rationale and guardrails.

Creates GitHub Copilot prompt files (`.prompt.md`) for VS Code. Use when building reusable workflow starters that route work to the right agent, collect the right inputs, and ship with install-ready templates, examples, and validation guidance.