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name: create-test-plan
description: "Analyze what changed and generate a structured test plan at .turbo/test-plan.md covering four escalating levels: basic functionality, complex operations, adversarial testing, and cross-cutting scenarios. Use when the user asks to \"create a test plan\", \"plan tests\", \"what should I test\", \"generate test scenarios\", \"test plan for this PR\", or \"what are the test cases\"."
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# Create Test Plan
Analyze what changed and generate a comprehensive test plan covering four escalating levels of testing depth.
## Step 1: Determine Scope
Resolve scope using the first match:
1. **User-specified** — the user says what to test. Use that.
2. **PR** — a PR URL or number is provided. Fetch the PR details (title, description, changed files, comments) and read the changed code.
3. **Conversation context** — prior conversation contains recent work (a feature, fix, or refactor). Extract what changed, where it lives, and expected behavior.
4. **App-level discovery** — fresh context with no prior work. Examine the project (entry points, routes, commands, README) to identify the app's core user-facing flows.
## Step 2: Analyze the Change
After identifying scope, read the actual code in depth to understand:
- What was added, modified, or removed
- Expected behavior (from PR descriptions, comments, commit messages, or specs)
- Assumptions the implementation makes
- Error paths and edge cases
- Other features or components that could be affected
## Step 3: Determine Testing Approach
Always check for project-specific testing skills or MCP tools first. Use the fallbacks below when nothing project-specific is available:
- **Web app** → `/agent-browser` skill if available, otherwise `claude-in-chrome` MCP
- **UI/native app** → `computer-use` MCP
- **CLI tool** → direct terminal execution
- **Library with no entry point** → report that interactive testing is not applicable and stop
## Step 4: Generate the Test Plan
For each level, generate specific, actionable test scenarios tailored to the actual change. Each scenario needs exact steps and an expected outcome.
### Level 1: Basic Functionality
Does the feature work at all? Verify the happy path and the most obvious behavior.
- Core feature works as described
- Expected output/UI matches the spec or PR description
- No regressions in directly related functionality
### Level 2: Complex Operations
Combine multiple actions in sequence. Verify state consistency across operations.
- Chain related operations (e.g., create, edit, rename, delete)
- Exercise different combinations of feature parameters
- Verify intermediate states are correct, not just the final result
### Level 3: Adversarial Testing
Actively try to break the feature. Explore boundary conditions and unexpected inputs.
- Invalid, empty, or extreme inputs
- Rapid repeated actions
- Interrupting operations midway (cancel, disconnect, close)
- Resource limits (very large files, deep structures, long names)
- Permission and access edge cases
### Level 4: Cross-Cutting Scenarios
Explore state interactions across system boundaries. These surface the hardest bugs.
- Concurrent modifications from different sources
- State transitions (online to offline to online, foreground to background)
- Interactions with other features that share state
- Race conditions between asynchronous operations
### When a Level Does Not Apply
If the change is small enough that a level has no meaningful scenarios (e.g., a typo fix has no cross-cutting scenarios), note "N/A for this change" with a brief explanation.
## Step 5: Present and Write
Output the plan as text. Then use `AskUserQuestion` to ask for approval before writing.
Create the `.turbo/` directory if it does not exist. Write the plan to `.turbo/test-plan.md` using this format:
```markdown
# Test Plan: <Feature/Change Name>
## Context
<Brief description of what changed and why>
## Approach
<Testing approach: agent-browser / claude-in-chrome / computer-use / terminal>
<Dev server command if applicable>
## Level 1: Basic Functionality
- [ ] **<Test name>** — <Steps to perform> → Expected: <expected outcome>
## Level 2: Complex Operations
- [ ] **<Test name>** — <Steps to perform> → Expected: <expected outcome>
## Level 3: Adversarial Testing
- [ ] **<Test name>** — <Steps to perform> → Expected: <expected outcome>
## Level 4: Cross-Cutting Scenarios
- [ ] **<Test name>** — <Steps to perform> → Expected: <expected outcome>
```
## Rules
- Generate at least 2 scenarios per level, more for complex changes.
- Each scenario must have concrete steps and an expected outcome specific to the change.
- Tailor all scenarios to the actual change. Generic test advice is not useful.