gaia-test-design

A risk-based test plan identifies and assesses project risks, focusing on critical paths and data integrity. This Skill coordinates with the Sable test-architect subagent to design test strategy, map components to unit, integration, and E2E levels, and output a formal test plan.

The Sable test-architect subagent collaborates on risk assessment and test-strategy development. It maps software components to appropriate test levels and defines quality gates, ensuring the final test plan uses the bundled template and is written to docs/test-artifacts/test-plan.md.

Mapping components to test levels requires assessing risk and coordinating test strategy. This Skill uses the Sable subagent to analyze critical paths and data integrity, then generates a formal test plan that documents coverage across unit, integration, and E2E levels with defined quality gates.

Yes, this workflow generates formal test artifacts and quality gates. It validates the test plan against the bundled test-plan-template.md and writes the final document to docs/test-artifacts/test-plan.md, ensuring comprehensive coverage and structured quality gates.

The workflow relies on resolve-config.sh, checkpoint.sh, and lifecycle-event.sh scripts. These bundled scripts manage configuration resolution, checkpointing, and lifecycle events to ensure the test plan is properly validated and written to the designated artifact location.

A risk assessment approach targets critical paths and data integrity issues first. By coordinating with Sable to design the test strategy, you ensure comprehensive coverage that prioritizes high-risk areas and produces a validated formal test plan with clear quality gates.