Doc Testing Patterns

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the challenge of maintaining high-quality, accurate, and up-to-date technical documentation by providing strategies and tools for automated testing.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Testing Pyramid: Implements a layered approach to documentation testing (Unit, Integration, E2E).
• Code Example Testing: Integrates with Python's doctest for testing code snippets within documentation.
• Prose Linting: Utilizes Vale for enforcing style guides and catching writing errors.
• Link Checking: Provides strategies for robust external and internal link verification.
• Code Freshness: Offers methods to detect and prevent code examples from becoming stale.
• Use Case: Automatically verify that all code examples in your project's documentation execute correctly with every pull request, and ensure all external links remain valid through scheduled checks.

Quick Start

Run automated documentation tests using the doc testing patterns skill.