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.
How to install brooks-test?
hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-test
$npx -y skills add hyhmrright/brooks-lint --skill brooks-testInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint" --skill "hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-test"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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