qa-report

Testing & Quality

Plans real-user QA as living repo docs — the durable <qa-docs-path> tree (default docs/qa/) that every QA cycle appends to. Use when bootstrapping or updating a project's QA docs, planning a cycle before execution (map journeys as flows, derive scenarios, plan persona-driven session charters), or registering bugs into the durable BUG-NNNN registry. Do not use for live session execution, browser evidence, or fix loops — use qa-execution for those.

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Real-User QA Planner

Plan QA as journeys real people walk, not test cases that accumulate. This skill owns the project's living QA docs — one committed tree (<qa-docs-path>, default docs/qa/) that every round appends to — and plans the persona-driven sessions qa-execution runs.

Two rules anchor everything:

Living docs, not round artifacts. All durable QA knowledge lives in the one committed tree; rounds append to it (structure, durability, and anti-patterns: references/qa-docs-layout.md).
Sessions, not cases. The atomic planning unit is the session charter (persona + journey + tour + time-box), derived from journey flowcharts. Coverage means "every planned journey was walked by a persona this cycle" — a session ledger, never a per-case count.

Each step points at the reference file that owns its contract; read that file before producing the step's deliverable — the inline text is a pointer, not the spec.

Required Inputs

qa-docs-path (optional): root of the living tree; defaults to docs/qa at the repo root — a durable, committed location, never a temp dir. If the argument points outside the repository, confirm before proceeding: living docs outside the repo lose review, diff, and history.

Procedures

Step 1 — Resolve or bootstrap the tree. Read references/qa-docs-layout.md (canonical tree, bootstrap procedure, adoption procedure for scattered legacy artifacts). Resolve <qa-docs-path>. If the tree exists, read its README.md and state.csv first and build every decision below on that state. If it does not, bootstrap it per the layout reference — seed state.csv from assets/state.csv and templates/ from the bundled template assets. If legacy QA artifacts sit scattered outside it, adopt them per the reference: index them, migrate durable knowledge, re-mint colliding ids.

Step 2 — Establish project personas. Read references/personas.md (seed catalog + derivation rules). Personas are durable instance data in <qa-docs-path>/personas.md: update them only when the product's audience changed; if absent, derive 3-6 from the seed catalog, adapted to the product's real audience.

Step 3 — Map journeys as flows (before any scenario). Read references/journeys-and-flows.md (journey anatomy, Mermaid mapping, flows-before-matrix). Scope the mapping: a branch/PR cycle covers every user-visible change in the diff; a release cycle covers the product's high-value journeys. For each, write or update <qa-docs-path>/journeys/J-<NN>-<slug>.md — the YAML journey map plus a Mermaid flowchart from entry → actions → branch points → side effects → the true end state, with at least one abandonment path. Map the flow first; the scenario comes from it.

Step 4 — Derive scenarios into the tracker. Read references/state-schema.md (columns, enums, id minting — exact) and references/taxonomy.md (the five coverage dimensions). Walk each flowchart and derive scenarios: one state.csv row per scenario with a stable <AREA>-NNN id, updated in place, overlaps recorded in the overlaps column. Sweep the five taxonomy dimensions per journey so coverage is deliberate. Rows are planning output — qa_status stays untested until qa-execution runs them.

Step 5 — Plan session charters. Read references/session-charters.md (charter anatomy, cadence tiers, the coverage inversion). Pick the cadence tier (smoke / targeted / full / sanity); the tier picks the journeys. Write one charter per session to <qa-docs-path>/charters/CH-<NNN>.md from <qa-docs-path>/templates/charter.md (seed: assets/charter-template.md), preserving its headings — mission, persona, journey, exactly one tour, time-box, must-try guidance — ordered by risk: highest-impact journey × highest-blast-radius tour first.

Step 6 — Register bugs. Read references/bug-registry.md (id minting, dedup, the five-tier user-impact rubric — the canonical severity model for both skills). Dedup before filing: search <qa-docs-path>/bugs/ for the symptom and update the existing file rather than duplicating — a re-found bug is history worth keeping on one id. Only a genuinely new symptom mints the next global BUG-NNNN; write it from <qa-docs-path>/templates/bug.md (seed: assets/bug-template.md), preserving its headings, and link the id into the affected state.csv rows' bug_ids.

Step 7 — Validate cycle completeness. Before handing off to qa-execution, verify — and record gaps honestly rather than padding:

every in-scope journey has a flowchart with a true end state and ≥1 abandonment path;
every in-scope journey has ≥1 charter with an assigned persona;
every in-scope scenario row has a stable id, a linked journey, and a qa_status reflecting reality;
every open bug has a registry file and appears in ≥1 row's bug_ids;
the five taxonomy dimensions were considered per journey — a skipped one is recorded with reasoning.

The completeness bar is "every journey walked by a persona", a session ledger — never a per-case count. Case accumulation is the failure mode this skill exists to prevent.

When a journey grows stable or regression-prone enough to deserve an automated E2E spec, read references/automation-backlog.md in full, then record the intent in <qa-docs-path>/automation-backlog.md — one backlog, never automation fields on individual scenarios or charters.

Companion Skills

qa-execution — runs the sessions this skill plans and writes results back into the same tree (statuses, bugs, reports). The living tree is the contract between the two.
agent-output-audit — owns CI verification gates, AI test-hygiene scans, and task-status reconciliation. Route technical integration/security/performance/load suites there or to dedicated tooling; record the routing decision, don't absorb the work.

Error Handling

state.csv won't parse (malformed row, wrong column count): repair it and report what was repaired before any downstream step — every step depends on a loadable tracker.
Two rows or two bug files claim one id: treat it as corruption — keep the older artifact canonical, re-mint the newer one, update references, and record the collision in the README.md changelog.
A branch cycle's diff has no user-visible change: say so and stop; there is nothing to dogfood. Do not invent scenarios to fill a cycle.
<qa-docs-path> can't be created (permissions, read-only checkout): surface the error and stop — never fall back to a temp directory.