security-scout-best-practices-reviewer

Testing & Quality

Use when reviewing Scout tests in x-pack/solutions/security/, running a pre-PR check on Security Solution Scout code, or reviewing a Cypress-to-Scout migration in that area.

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Security Solution — Scout Best Practices Reviewer (Additive)

Additive checks for Security Solution Scout tests.

Security-specific checklist

Page objects — Security-specific placement

New page objects belong in kbn-scout-security/src/playwright/fixtures/test/page_objects/. Register via the pageObjects fixture so specs access them as pageObjects.myPage.

Data cleanup — Security Solution resources

Flag missing cleanup — leaked state breaks parallel tests.

Security Solution tests commonly create resources that require explicit cleanup in afterAll/afterEach:

Detection rules and alerts (apiServices.detectionRule.deleteAll(), apiServices.detectionAlerts.deleteAll())
Timelines and timeline templates (apiServices.timeline.deleteAll())
Cases and case comments
Risk Engine and Entity Store state
Asset Criticality assignments
Exception lists and items
Endpoint policies and fleet agents

Package imports

Import spaceTest, test, tags, expect from @kbn/scout-security — not from @kbn/scout
Import expect from @kbn/scout-security/ui (not the main entry point)
Import page objects and API services from @kbn/scout-security when they exist there

Auth and roles

Use Security Solution-specific auth methods rather than loginAsAdmin():

Role	Method	When to use
Platform engineer	`browserAuth.loginAsPlatformEngineer()`	Default — standard CRUD privileges
T1 analyst	`browserAuth.loginAsT1Analyst()`	Read-only analyst, RBAC testing
Any security role	`browserAuth.loginAsSecurityRole('role_name')`	Generic — any role in `roles.yml`
Custom role	`browserAuth.loginWithCustomRole(roleDescriptor)`	Ad-hoc RBAC with inline descriptors

Flag loginAsAdmin() — prefer the least-privileged role from the table above that still exercises the behaviour under test, since admin masks RBAC regressions and doesn't reflect real usage. Admin is acceptable only when the test genuinely requires it.

Prefer named convenience methods (loginAsPlatformEngineer, loginAsT1Analyst) over loginAsSecurityRole('platform_engineer') for commonly used roles.

API services reuse

Available services in @kbn/scout-security:

Service	Methods
`detectionRule`	`createCustomQueryRule()`, `deleteAll()`
`detectionAlerts`	`deleteAll()`
`entityAnalytics`	`deleteEntityStoreEngines()`, `deleteRiskEngineConfiguration()`, `getRiskEngineStatus()`, `waitForEntityStoreStatus()`
`cloudConnectorApi`	Cloud connector operations
`timeline`	`createTimeline()`, `createTimelineTemplate()`, `deleteAll()`

If a new API service is added, verify it:

Lives in kbn-scout-security/src/playwright/fixtures/worker/apis/
Exports from the apis/index.ts barrel
Registers in SecurityApiServicesFixture (types), parallel_run_fixtures.ts, and single_thread_fixtures.ts

Test placement

Timeline UI tests belong in security_solution/test/scout/ — the timelines plugin only has server-side saved object definitions and APIs
Parallel specs go in test/scout/ui/parallel_tests/<domain>/
Sequential specs go in test/scout/ui/tests/<domain>/

Migration parity (Security-specific additions)

When reviewing a Cypress-to-Scout migration, check these in addition to the migration parity analysis:

Cypress { force: true } replaced with proper waits or dispatchEvent('click') (not silently removed)
cy.task('esArchiverLoad') for system indices replaced with kbnClient or apiServices (not esArchiver)
@serverless / @ess Cypress tags mapped to Scout deployment tags
Cleanup added for all resources the Cypress test created (Cypress relied on clean env per spec)

Skill improvement

After every review, check for new learnings worth capturing. Suggest updates if:

New review checklist item — found a Security-specific pattern worth verifying
New API service or page object — reusable infrastructure was added to @kbn/scout-security

Prompt the user: "During this review I learned [X]. Want me to add it to the skill so future reviews benefit?"