# Brooks Test

> Test quality review drawing on twelve classic engineering books — with primary focus on xUnit Test Patterns, The Art of Unit Testing, How Google Tests Software, and Working Effectively with Legacy Code — that diagnoses structural problems in an existing test suite: brittleness, mock abuse, coverage illusions, slow execution, poor readability. Triggers when: user asks about test quality, shares test files for review, or expresses frustration: "tests keep breaking whenever I change anything", "our tests take forever", "tests pass but bugs still reach production", or "we have too many mocks". Do NOT trigger for: writing new tests from scratch (use the regular test-writing workflow) or testing framework/syntax questions — this skill reviews an existing suite for structural quality problems, not individual test authoring.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-hyhmrright-brooks-test
- tashan id: skill:hyhmrright/brooks-test
- Source: https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: not measured
- Freshness: not measured
- Evidence coverage: not measured
- Health: not measured
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r brooks-test ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-05 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.