What problem does it solve?
Tests written during the Red phase of test-driven development often have coverage gaps, convention violations, or trivial assertions that inflate test counts without catching real bugs. This Skill evaluates those tests before they drive implementation, producing a structured Accept or Revise recommendation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Acceptance-Criteria Coverage Matrix: Maps each acceptance criterion to the tests that verify it, flagging missing, weak, or non-test-deliverable criteria.
- Convention and Quality Review: Discovers existing codebase test conventions independently and evaluates naming, assertions, isolation, readability, and minimality.
- Trivial Test Detection: Identifies tautological assertions, constructor echo tests, and type-system-verified checks that add maintenance cost without testing value.
- Use Case: After a test-creation agent writes Red-phase tests for a new slice, run this review to confirm every acceptance criterion is covered and failures indicate correctly missing implementation before starting the Green phase.
Quick Start
Review the Red-phase tests in tests/test_parser.py against the acceptance criteria for the CSV parser slice and tell me whether to accept or revise them.
