Software Development
Test Anti Patterns
Audit a test file or suite; produce a severity-ranked diagnostic report. ALWAYS USE for tests that verify nothing, missing/tautological assertions, swallowed/broad exceptions, flaky/order-dependent tests, duplication, or magic values. Polyglot. DO NOT USE for direct edits: writing-mstest-tests owns supplied MSTest assertions/attributes/lifecycle; code-testing owns new tests. Exclude running tests, migration, assertion metrics (assertion-quality), raw .NET coverage collection (run-tests), non-.NET coverage collection/analysis (native tooling), project-wide .NET coverage/CRAP (coverage-analysis), named-target .NET CRAP (crap-score), behavioral/pseudo-mutation gaps (test-gap-analysis), test-mix/ happy-vs-error classification and trait distributions (test-tagging), or the testsmells.org catalog (test-smell-detection).
- Publisher / source
- dotnet/skills (found on skills.sh)
- Upstream record
- dotnet/skills
- Version
- Version 1
- Published
- Publication review
- Approved for publication · recorded passed scan 2026-11-01
- Content fingerprint
01cf87008db2f6ffe17f397856d9ccb5080bbc869e4089baab9acee2e5b0027c