desktop-test-strategy-reference SKILL.md skillA
desktop-test-strategy-reference from testland/qa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add testland/qa/desktop-test-strategy-reference@v1.2.15Pins v1.2.15 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testland/qa
- Path
plugins/qa-desktop/skills/desktop-test-strategy-reference/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.2.15, committed Oct 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 23,709 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Reference catalog of desktop GUI test strategies across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Defines the three accessibility-tree backends (Microsoft UI Automation on Windows, Apple Accessibility / XCTest on macOS, AT-SPI on Linux), the wrapper-tools that drive each backend, the cross-toolkit Electron + Qt paths, the project-marker detection table plus one-driver-per-app decision table (FlaUI / WinAppDriver / electron-playwright / QtTest / XCUITest / AT-SPI), an accessibility-first locator strategy, and…
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
# desktop-test-strategy-reference ## Overview Desktop GUI testing is fragmented along two axes: **operating system** (Windows / macOS / Linux) and **UI toolkit** (native, Electron, Qt, GTK, Cocoa, WPF, WinUI, Win32). Unlike the web - where a single DOM-driving tool (Playwright / Selenium) covers every browser - each desktop OS exposes its own accessibility tree, and that tree is the substrate every reliable desktop test driver uses. Per [Microsoft Learn - UI Automation Win32 overview][msuia]: [msuia]: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/winauto/entry-uiauto-win32 > "Microsoft UI Automation is an accessibility framework that > enables Windows applications to provide and consume programmatic > information about user interfaces (UIs). … UI Automation also > allows automated test scripts to interact with the UI." Per [Apple - *Testing with Xcode*, UI Testing chapter][appleuit]: [appleuit]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/testing_with_xcode/chapters/09-ui_testing.html > "UI Testing rests upon two core technologies: the XCTest framework > and Accessibility." Per the [at-spi2-core project][atspi2core]: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add testland/qa/desktop-test-strategy-reference@sha256:49f782dacc65cecaThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.15, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| v1.2.15 latest | 2026-10-11 | a1bd3f7 | 23,709 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.4a11cd6 | 2026-08-13 | 4a11cd6 | 23,689 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.89d9e8f | 2026-07-25 | 89d9e8f | 17,049 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.3237dd1 | 2026-07-25 | 3237dd1 | 24,529 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.53f73b7 | 2026-07-19 | 53f73b7 | 24,000 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23709 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
testland/qa · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oyfwwagzrfzejtq4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testland/qa/desktop-test-strategy-reference GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/49f782dacc65cecab66794b2c329c707abeb4fa4706637f6172d726ad8f071a2
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