bmad-test-strategy

Risk-focused test strategy prioritizes testing based on likelihood and impact of failures. This Skill generates structured test strategies covering unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with templates and artifact templates to align testing approach with project risk profile and quality standards.

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) defines software behavior through test scenarios before implementation. This Skill generates ATDD artifacts and sample scenarios that bridge requirements and executable tests, ensuring acceptance criteria are testable and traceable.

Quality gates establish measurable checkpoints that software must pass before release. This Skill defines gates, metrics, and escalation paths tailored to your delivery pipeline, with governance artifacts that specify which tests must pass and what data proves release readiness.

Test strategy automation reduces manual planning overhead and ensures consistency. This Skill automates QA strategy and ATDD planning by generating test strategy documents, acceptance scenarios, and quality checklists from templates, applicable during architecture and delivery planning phases.

Test strategy defines what to test, ATDD specifies how to verify behavior, and CI/CD pipelines enforce quality gates. This Skill produces all three artifacts together—strategy documents, ATDD scenarios, and pipeline-ready quality gates—ensuring traceability from requirements through automated validation.

Risk-based test strategies scale across project sizes by prioritizing high-impact areas. This Skill supports functional and technical requirement coverage at any scale, generating customized strategies for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing with template-driven governance artifacts.