nw-ad-critique-dimensions

You can review acceptance tests for Given-When-Then compliance by evaluating them across six critique dimensions, flagging violations with severity levels, and generating a YAML-based review artifact to guide test improvements.

Happy path bias in acceptance testing occurs when scenarios focus solely on successful outcomes. It is identified during peer review by evaluating coverage completeness and checking for missing edge cases within the test suite.

To generate a structured critique report for BDD acceptance test scenarios, run a peer-review pass that evaluates six quality dimensions, flags violations, and outputs a YAML-based artifact for QA workflows.

Yes, this acceptance test critique approach works without external dependencies. It applies a structured evaluation framework directly to test scenarios to assess GWT format compliance and domain-language purity.

A limitation of using six-dimension evaluation for test coverage completeness is its focus on structural GWT compliance and domain language purity, which may not fully capture complex integration or performance testing gaps.

You should use an acceptance test critique guide in your QA workflow during peer-review of test scenarios across product features, specifically before development handoffs to ensure happy-path coverage and walking skeleton user-centricity.