Tools for test-reviewer
Confirming CI actually runs the automated test suite
Test command:
mise exec -- godot --headless -s addons/gut/gut_cmdln.gd -gdir=res://tests/unit -gexit
Uses GUT v9.7.1 — see
docs/tools/test-writer.md for the same command and its
caveats. Check that whatever CI workflow exists actually invokes this
command against res://tests/unit, not just a docs/site build. Verify it by
opening the workflow file yourself; a previous reviewer's word that CI was
fine is the weaker check.
Judging whether a test can actually fail
A passing suite is not evidence that the tests are any good, and this is the most valuable thing you can look for. Read docs/tools/test-writer.md's section on tests passing for the wrong reason — then go hunting for exactly those shapes:
- assertions over collections that could be empty
- comparisons between two outcomes that would both be untouched if the operation under test never ran
- "nothing happened" assertions where something other than the mechanism under test could supply the "nothing"
- fixture arithmetic where the correct answer and the unimplemented answer are the same number
Where you suspect one, write a throwaway test that would fail if the behaviour is absent, run it, and delete it. Do not take the totals line as an answer.
Judging whether a manual-test step is necessary or reachable by automation
Consider godot-ai whenever a manual step is proposed — if it
can drive the behaviour in question, a manual-test document may be the wrong
call. That file has the criterion for when it applies.
If a task has no manual tests at all, that is still a finding to check rather than a settled fact inherited from an earlier phase: ask whether any acceptance criterion was quietly routed away from being tested.
Checking new test files landed in the right place
res://tests/ (top-level, non-recursive) is reserved for the Godot AI
addon's own McpTestSuite-based test_manage/test_run MCP tools. New GUT
tests belong one level down, in res://tests/unit/ — flag anything placed
directly under res://tests/.