Unit Test Starter
SkillDev toolsGenerate starter unit tests for a small function or module. Use when a junior developer needs test scaffolding and edge cases.
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Then ask your AI: use the Unit Test Starter skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by proflead/codex-skills-library in skills/testing/unit-test-starter/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Purpose
Generate starter unit tests for a small function or module.
Inputs to request
- Function signature and expected behavior.
- Test framework and language.
- Edge cases or error conditions.
Workflow
- Identify core behaviors and failure cases from the function signature.
- Propose table-driven cases with inputs and expected outputs.
- Highlight one edge case and one negative case.
- Show how to run the tests.
Output
- Test case list with rationale.
- Sample test code snippet for the project test framework.
Quality bar
- Keep tests deterministic and isolated.
- Prefer clear assertions over broad snapshots.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 144
- Forks
- 30
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
unit-test-starter- Source
- github.com/proflead/codex-skills-library