risk-based-testing SKILL.md skillA
risk-based-testing from petrkindlmann/qa-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add petrkindlmann/qa-skills/risk-based-testing@v2.0Pins v2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- petrkindlmann/qa-skills
- Path
skills/risk-based-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.0, committed Jun 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 30, 2026
- Size
- 21,434 bytes
- Repository stars
- 245
- License
- MIT
Produce a risk matrix or heatmap that quantifies what could break by business impact × probability, runs failure mode analysis on the top items, and maps test coverage to risk zones. Includes stakeholder interview frameworks and continuous reassessment. Run this BEFORE test-strategy or test-planning. Use when: "risk assessment," "risk matrix," "risk heatmap," "what could break," "critical paths," "failure modes," "where to focus testing." Not for: multi-quarter QA direction — use test-strategy.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<objective> Equal coverage across all features wastes effort on low-risk areas while leaving critical paths under-tested — a 90% coverage target on a settings page is effort stolen from checkout. This skill discovers risk, quantifies it as impact × probability, maps test density to risk zones, and keeps the assessment current as the product evolves. Output is a scored risk matrix that feeds `test-strategy` and `test-planning`. </objective> ## Quick Route | Situation | Start at | |-----------|----------| | New product, no risk model yet | Phase 1 (Identification) → run the full 6 phases | | Post-incident reassessment | Phase 6 (Reassessment triggers), then re-score the affected items in Phase 2 | | AI/LLM feature to assess | Phase 3 (AI/LLM failure classes), score each class in Phase 2 | | Sprint refresh of an existing matrix | Phases 4–5 (Heatmap + Coverage alignment) on changed features | | Verify an old heatmap is still true | Phase 6 signals + Anti-Pattern "Risk Theater" | --- ## Discovery Questions …
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How to install
mdr add petrkindlmann/qa-skills/risk-based-testing@sha256:d39f564e2389b1deThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 10, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| v2.0 latest | 2026-06-10 | bcd1201 | 21,434 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-21 | c7fb325 | 22,789 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-10 | efa2391 | 22,679 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-05-10 | 0bcda07 | 22,326 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-03-30 | 59713a4 | 20,817 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
petrkindlmann/qa-skills · 245 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_luuqwbjgzldqoixy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=petrkindlmann/qa-skills/risk-based-testing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d39f564e2389b1de04024a40e0691feb100004f59e2616b2049632947ef0fe4a
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