Tests & QA21 categories
What should I not test?
A suite that costs more to maintain than it catches.
Shortvaluepruning
What in here is not worth testing? Tell me what to delete.
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Test strategy. Unit or integration, what to skip, fixture design, and pruning a suite that costs too much.
Related prompts
Decide unit or integration for this codeWhen you are not sure whether to mock the boundary or cross it.Design test data for this featureWhen every test starts with forty lines of fixture setup.Audit a test suite for value versus noiseA suite that takes 20 minutes and nobody trusts the red runs.Decide what not to testWhen the test plan has grown beyond the time available.Audit this suite for untested behaviourYou wrote tests and want to know what you did not think of.Write test cases from acceptance criteriaA story is ready for QA and the criteria need turning into concrete checks.
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