test-anti-patterns

test-anti-patterns is a Test authoring & frameworks skill for AI agents, published by microsoft in the testfx repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates test-anti-patterns D (66/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Audits existing test code in any language for anti-patterns and quality issues — produces a severity-ranked report (Critical / Warning / Info) with concrete code-level fixes. Polyglot: .NET (MSTest/xUnit/NUnit/ TUnit), Python (pytest/unittest), TS/JS (Jest/Vitest/Mocha/node:test), Java (JUnit/TestNG), Go, Ruby (RSpec/Minitest), Rust, Swift, Kotlin (JUnit/Kotest), PowerShell (Pester), C++ (GoogleTest/Catch2). INVOKE when asked to audit, review, rank, or find problems in existing tests — "audit my tests", "test smell audit", "rank by severity", tests that pass but verify nothing, no/missing assertions, swallowed exceptions, always-true / self-comparing / tautological assertions, broad exception types, flakiness (sleep/Date.now/time.sleep), ordering dependency, shared global state, duplicated tests, magic values, missing await on async assertions. DO NOT USE FOR: writing new tests (use code-testing-agent, or writing-mstest-tests for MSTest); running tests (use run-tests); framework…

Grade

D

Quality

66 / 100

Safety

Passed

GitHub stars

1,043

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