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exp-test-maintainability

from dotnet/skills · ★ 4,632 on GitHub · found by our crawler 2026-07-07

What the author says it does

Detects duplicate boilerplate, copy-paste tests, and structural maintainability issues across .NET test suites. Use when the user asks to reduce repetition, consolidate similar test methods, convert copy-paste tests to data-driven parameterized tests, suggest a better test structure, or identify refactoring opportunities. Identifies repeated construction, assertion patterns, copy-paste methods convertible to DataRow/Theory/TestCase, redundant setup/teardown, and shared infrastructure. Produces an analysis report with concrete before/after suggestions. Works with MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, and TUnit. DO NOT USE FOR: writing new tests (use writing-mstest-tests), reviewing test quality or anti-patterns (use test-anti-patterns), or deep mock auditing (use exp-mock-usage-analysis).

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100/100 validator score

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Install (unverified — review first)

git clone https://github.com/dotnet/skills
# skill lives at: plugins/dotnet-experimental/skills/exp-test-maintainability/SKILL.md

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