sota-testing SKILL.md skillA
sota-testing from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-testing@git:20261029.55f1f37Pins git:20261029.55f1f37 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martinholovsky/sota-skills
- Path
skills/sota-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261029.55f1f37, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,427 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
State-of-the-art software testing strategy and practice (2026) for designing test strategy, writing unit/integration/e2e tests, or auditing test suites. Covers suite shape (pyramid/trophy/honeycomb), test design quality (behavior-first, AAA, determinism, smells), test doubles (mocks/fakes/stubs), test data (builders over fixtures), real-dependency integration (Testcontainers-style), contract testing (Pact/consumer-driven), e2e/UI strategy (selectors, auto-waiting, flake economics)…
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
# SOTA Testing (2026) Expert-level, language-agnostic rules for producing and auditing production test suites. Per-language runner/tooling details (pytest, go test, cargo test, vitest/jest) live in the language skills ([`sota-python`](../sota-python/SKILL.md), [`sota-golang`](../sota-golang/SKILL.md), [`sota-rust`](../sota-rust/SKILL.md), [`sota-javascript-typescript`](../sota-javascript-typescript/SKILL.md)) — this skill defines the strategy, design discipline, and quality bar those tools execute against. Every rule states the *why*; every rules file ends with an audit checklist of yes/no questions and grep-able smells. ## Purpose Two consumers, one source of truth: - **BUILD mode** — designing a test strategy or writing tests for new code: follow the rules as defaults, not suggestions. Deviate only with an explicit comment justifying the deviation. - **AUDIT mode** — reviewing an existing suite: hunt violations using the audit checklists, classify by severity, report in the finding format below. ## BUILD mode 1. Before writing tests, read the rules files relevant to the layer you are testing (see index). A service touching HTTP + DB + a message queue needs …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-testing@sha256:a52f8de6e652c7adThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.55f1f37, 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 12 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20261029.55f1f37 latest | 2026-10-29 | 55f1f37 | 12,427 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.2b6f6f7 | 2026-10-26 | 2b6f6f7 | 12,309 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.8dd2b0a | 2026-10-24 | 8dd2b0a | 11,179 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ae1b29b | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 10,938 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260925.c97f62d | 2026-09-25 | c97f62d | 10,017 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.6b04b37 | 2026-09-10 | 6b04b37 | 9,701 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260617.c5d2c7b | 2026-06-17 | c5d2c7b | 8,109 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rdca4umiemdzjytg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-testing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a52f8de6e652c7ada73d3cfdcc260a8eb3e103f254ccfc0e7a7571dfb5ae66c3
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