Purpose

Equip QA teams with a thorough test strategy document ready to align with engineering and product before delivery begins.

Pre-run Checklist

• ✅ Review discovery risk assessment outcomes.
• ✅ Gather architectural diagrams and integration dependencies.
• ✅ Confirm available automation frameworks and environment readiness.

Invocation Guidance

codex run --skill definition.test_strategy \
  --vars "feature={{feature}}" \
         "scope={{scope}}" \
         "non_functional={{non_functional}}" \
         "constraints={{constraints}}"

Recommended Input Attachments

• Historical defect data or production incident summaries.
• Existing test plans or automation coverage reports.

Claude Workflow Outline

1. Summarize feature scope, risks, and constraints.
2. Define testing objectives tied to quality risks and success metrics.
3. Produce a coverage matrix mapping test types to owners, environments, and tooling.
4. Outline milestones with entry/exit criteria and reporting cadence.
5. Highlight dependencies, data needs, and automation investments.

Output Template

## Test Strategy Overview
Feature: {{feature}}
Scope: {{scope}}

## Testing Objectives
- Objective — Risk addressed — Metric

## Coverage Matrix
| Test Type | Owner | Environment | Tooling | Automation | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

## Milestones & Criteria
| Milestone | Entry Criteria | Exit Criteria | Target Date | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

## Dependencies & Data Needs
- Dependency:
- Mitigation:

Follow-up Actions

• Review strategy with engineering and product leadership for sign-off.
• Translate coverage needs into executable test cases in the test management tool.
• Track progress and update strategy as scope evolves.