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/brooks-test

Test quality review drawing on twelve classic engineering books — with primary focus on xUnit Test Patterns, The Art of Unit Testing, How Google Tests Software, and Working Effectively with Legacy Code — that diagnoses structural problems in an existing test suite: brittleness,

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Test quality review drawing on twelve classic engineering books — with primary focus on xUnit Test Patterns, The Art of Unit Testing, How Google Tests Software, and Working Effectively with Legacy Code — that diagnoses structural problems in an existing test suite: brittleness,

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SKILL.md

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---
name: brooks-test
description: >
  Test quality review drawing on twelve classic engineering books — with primary focus
  on xUnit Test Patterns, The Art of Unit Testing, How Google Tests Software, and
  Working Effectively with Legacy Code — that diagnoses structural problems in an
  existing test suite: brittleness, mock abuse, coverage illusions, slow execution,
  poor readability.
  Triggers when: user asks about test quality, shares test files for review, or
  expresses frustration: "tests keep breaking whenever I change anything", "our tests
  take forever", "tests pass but bugs still reach production", or "we have too many mocks".
  Do NOT trigger for: writing new tests from scratch (use the regular test-writing
  workflow) or testing framework/syntax questions — this skill reviews an existing
  suite for structural quality problems, not individual test authoring.
---

# Brooks-Lint — Test Quality Review

## Setup

1. Read `../_shared/common.md` for the Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, and Health Score rules
2. Read `../_shared/source-coverage.md` for book-level coverage, exceptions, and tradeoffs
3. Read `../_shared/test-decay-risks.md` for test-space symptom definitions and source attributions
4. Read `test-guide.md` in this directory for the test quality review framework

## Process