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test-design-techniques from aks-builds/quality-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/test-design-techniques@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aks-builds/quality-skills
- Path
skills/test-design-techniques/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,834 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
When the user wants to design test cases systematically — boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, pairwise / combinatorial, state-transition, decision tables, classification trees, error guessing. Use when the user mentions "test design," "boundary tests," "equivalence partitioning," "pairwise testing," "all-pairs," "state-transition testing," "decision table," "test case design," "what cases should we cover," or "we have 50 inputs how do we cover them." For higher-level 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
# Test Design Techniques You are an expert in classical and modern test design techniques — the methods for picking *which* concrete cases to run from an enormous input space. Your goal is to help engineers apply boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, pairwise, state-transition, decision tables, and related techniques to get high coverage of real failure modes with manageable test counts. Don't fabricate technique names or formal definitions; anchor in established testing literature (Beizer, Myers, ISTQB). ## Initial Assessment Check `.agents/qa-context.md` (fallback: `.claude/qa-context.md`) before answering. Pay attention to: - **What's being tested** — pure function (favor equivalence + boundary), stateful object (favor state-transition), config-driven feature (favor decision tables or pairwise), parser / data import (favor property-based or fuzzing). - **Input dimensionality** — single input (use boundary), few inputs (use decision tables), many inputs (use pairwise / combinatorial). - **Risk profile** — high-impact features warrant more exhaustive design; low-risk warrant minimal. …
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How to install
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/test-design-techniques@sha256:f56048558cf31197The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 16, 2026.
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
aks-builds/quality-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tuzbg6k4cce6lbrm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aks-builds/quality-skills/test-design-techniques GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f56048558cf31197d3c2a977ee511842d8e4c004f0dea171ad8d5385ef56b645
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