wicked-testing:plan

wicked-testing:plan

One skill for everything before tests get written. Figures out what to test, what can go wrong, and whether the design lets you test at all.

When to use

• Before the build phase of a feature
• When a PR's scope is unclear and you need to know what to test
• When acceptance criteria were just drafted (requirements-quality gate)
• When a design doc is ready but no code exists yet (testability gate)

How it dispatches

Read the target first, then route:

Target	Dispatch
Acceptance criteria / clarify doc	wicked-testing:requirements-quality-analyst
Design doc / architecture sketch	wicked-testing:testability-reviewer
Feature description / user story	wicked-testing:test-strategist
Known-risky change (security, data, perf)	wicked-testing:risk-assessor
"Test everything" / broad review	All four in parallel; merge findings

When multiple apply, dispatch in parallel. Merge results in the reply — no unrelated raw outputs dumped in.

Dispatch block (executable)

Task(
  subagent_type="wicked-testing:test-strategist",
  prompt="""Generate a comprehensive test strategy for the target below.

## Target
{file path, directory, or feature description}

## Instructions
1. Classify the change type (UI, API, both, data, config).
2. Analyze the surface area (public APIs, functions, endpoints).
3. Generate positive + negative scenario pairs for every feature.
4. Identify risk areas and confidence level.
5. Flag any specification gaps discovered.

**MANDATORY**: Every scenario must have BOTH positive AND negative counterpart.
Return findings in the standard test-strategist format."""
)

Swap subagent_type to the matching agent from the table above. For the "test everything" path, dispatch all four in parallel (one Task(...) call per agent in the same turn) and merge the returned findings.

Tier-2 specialists this skill may pull in

For domain-specific planning signals, dispatch a specialist and fold its output into the strategy document. These don't render verdicts — they add risk+scenario coverage where the generalist agents would miss signal:

Trigger (anything in the target that matches)	Specialist
React/Vue/Svelte component under test	wicked-testing:ui-component-test-engineer
API / service boundary (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)	wicked-testing:integration-test-engineer
Database migration or schema change	wicked-testing:data-quality-tester
Performance-sensitive path (heavy compute, I/O)	wicked-testing:load-performance-engineer
Multi-step user journey	wicked-testing:e2e-orchestrator
UI with visual regressions risk (CSS, theming)	wicked-testing:visual-regression-engineer
User-facing surface (WCAG 2.1 AA relevance)	wicked-testing:a11y-test-engineer
Parser / serializer / round-trip / invariants	wicked-testing:fuzz-property-engineer
Translated / RTL / pluralization-sensitive copy	wicked-testing:localization-test-engineer
Service with logs / metrics / traces / PII-in-signals	wicked-testing:observability-test-engineer
Test-suite effectiveness evaluation (kill rate)	wicked-testing:mutation-test-engineer
Failure-mode / resilience planning	wicked-testing:chaos-test-engineer
Application-security scope (SAST/DAST/authz)	wicked-testing:security-test-engineer
LLM / AI feature in the codebase	wicked-testing:ai-feature-test-engineer
Terraform / helm / k8s / IaC / policy-as-code	wicked-testing:iac-test-engineer
Regulated industry (SOC2 / HIPAA / GDPR / PCI)	wicked-testing:compliance-test-engineer
Test suite with snapshots (jest / syrupy / cassettes)	wicked-testing:snapshot-hygiene-auditor
Test-suite quality itself (smells, dead tests)	wicked-testing:test-code-quality-auditor
Prod incident -> regression scenario synthesis	wicked-testing:incident-to-scenario-synthesizer

Tier-2 names are internal — see docs/NAMESPACE.md. Consumers (wicked-garden) depend only on Tier-1 names.

Output

• A test strategy: scenarios (positive + negative), risk matrix, testability verdict, AC quality verdict
• Concrete next actions: which scenarios to author next, which ACs to rewrite, which design changes unblock testing
• A pointer to the ledger where this plan is recorded

Emits wicked.teststrategy.authored on the bus when present.

References

• docs/INTEGRATION.md
• docs/NAMESPACE.md
• agents/test-strategist.md, agents/risk-assessor.md, agents/testability-reviewer.md, agents/requirements-quality-analyst.md