CI integration, CLI tool testing, code-quality gates and manual testing.
CI/CD test pipelines for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins: matrix builds, sharding, retries, test reports, and artifact handling. Shared conventions cover when to shard and retry, flake quarantine, and per-trigger cadence, with CircleCI patterns in references. A critic agent (ci-pipeline-health-critic) flags test-pipeline anti-patterns such as retries that mask flakiness.
CLI and terminal UI testing: Bats for shell scripts and binaries, Pester for PowerShell, TUI snapshot tests, and conventions for testable CLI output. Snapshot tests capture rendered terminal frames as text or SVG and diff them on every run; the output conventions cover exit codes, stdout vs stderr, and machine-readable modes.
Production code quality checks: SonarQube maintainability gates, Lizard complexity limits, Madge circular dependencies, and Knip dead-code detection. A critic agent (code-quality-critic) merges the tool reports, dedupes overlapping findings, and separates fix-now items from the backlog. Production code only; test-code hygiene lives in qa-test-review.
Manual and exploratory testing: scripted test cases, session-based exploratory charters, decision-table and state-transition test design, and bug bashes. Covers SBTM, Whittaker's tours, Bach and Bolton's heuristics, UAT scripts, and PROOF debriefs. A critic agent (test-script-quality-critic) flags vague preconditions and bundled steps in authored scripts.
