Skills Directory
Reusable, audited skills for BoxLang & the Ortus ecosystem.
Use this skill when selecting or configuring TestBox reporters: Agent, ANTJunit, Console, Doc, Dot, JSON, JUnit, Min, MinText, Simple, Text, XML, Streaming; the TestBox 7.2 HTML reporters (Simple, Min, Dot, Doc) with light/dark themes, keyboard shortcuts, status filters and Ask AI (aiAssist, aiProviders, aiContextLines, aiStackFrames, aiPrompt, urlParams); editor links; setting reporter options (hideSkipped); how reporters show spec attachments (attach(), browser screenshots/traces/videos) and retry attempts; or creating a custom reporter by implementing the IReporter interface.
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Use this skill when writing fluent expectations in TestBox using expect(), the collection modes (expectAll, expectAny, expectSome, expectNone), expectation context with withContext(), and the built-in matchers: toBe, toBeTrue, toBeFalse, toBeTruthy, toBeFalsy, toBeNull, toBeArray, toBeStruct, toBeEmpty, toHaveLength, toHaveSize, toBeTypeOf, toBeInstanceOf, toBeSameInstanceAs, toHaveKey, toHaveDeepKey, toInclude, toIncludeWithCase, toIncludeAll, toIncludeAny, toIncludeNone, toMatch, toBeGT, toBeGTE, toBeLT, toBeLTE, toBeBetween, toBeCloseTo, toSatisfy, toThrow, toThrowMatching; the BoxLang-only Set matchers (toBeASet, toEqualSet, toBeSubsetOf, toBeSupersetOf, toBeDisjointFrom, toHaveUnion, toHaveIntersection, toHaveDifference, toHaveSymmetricDifference); the BoxLang-only Range matchers (toBeRange, toContainValue, toContainRange, toBeInRange, toBeBeforeRange, toBeAfterRange, toBeBounded, toBeUnbounded, toBeHalfBounded, toBeIterable, toBeAscending, toBeDescending, toHaveStep, toClampTo); the BoxLang-only Data Navigator matchers (toHavePath, toHavePathValue, toHavePathType, toHavePathSatisfying, path, queryPath); the BoxLang-only browser matchers for bx-playwright pages and locators (toHaveTitle, toHaveURL, toSee, toHaveText, toBeVisible, toBeHidden, toHaveCount, toHaveValue; see testbox-browser-testing); the not operator (notToBe, notToBeEmpty, etc.); chaining matchers on one expect(); or creating custom matchers with addMatchers().
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Use this skill when writing xUnit-style tests in TestBox using test functions (testXxx()), setup/teardown lifecycle (beforeTests/afterTests/setup/teardown), the $assert assertion object, grouped assertions with $assert.all() / assertAll(), retrying flaky tests with the retries method or bundle annotation, attaching files with attach(), skipping a single test or an entire test class with the class-level skip annotation, engine detection helpers (isBoxLang/isLucee/isAdobe), or the Arrange-Act-Assert (AAA) pattern for unit testing services, models, and utilities in isolation.
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Use this skill when writing BDD-style tests with TestBox using describe/it blocks, feature/story/scenario/given/when/then Gherkin-style suites, lifecycle hooks (beforeAll/afterAll/beforeEach/afterEach/aroundEach), focused specs (fit/fdescribe), skipping specs (xit/xdescribe/skip()) or whole test classes with the class-level skip annotation, engine detection helpers (isBoxLang/isLucee/isAdobe), grouped assertions with assertAll(), collection expectations (expectAll/expectAny/expectSome/expectNone), spec data binding, retrying flaky specs (it/fit/xit retries argument, retries bundle annotation), attaching files to a spec with attach(), asyncAll parallel specs, nested suite trees, labels, or organizing tests around behavior descriptions.
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Use this skill when running TestBox tests: CommandBox CLI (testbox run), BoxLang CLI (./testbox/run), HTML web runner, programmatic TestBox instantiation (run/runRaw/runRemote), configuring test directories or bundles, using the streaming runner (--stream flag / StreamingRunner), watcher mode, all CLI flags (--show-failed-only, --dry-run, --slow-threshold-ms, --stacktrace, --max-failures), toggling code coverage with the coverageEnabled URL parameter (opt-in since TestBox 7.1), retrying failing specs (--retries), rerunning only the last failures (--failed), starting a web server for browser tests (--web-server, --web-server-url, --web-server-timeout), or setting up box.json testbox configuration.
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Use this skill when writing or running browser tests with TestBox on BoxLang: extending testbox.system.BrowserSpec, installing bx-playwright and Chromium (install-bx-module bx-playwright, bxPlaywright install), the browserProfile and baseURL class annotations, browse() with one isolated page per callback argument, this.playwright() and browserAvailable(), the browser matchers (toHaveTitle, toHaveURL, toHavePath, toSee, toHaveText, toBeVisible, toBeHidden, toHaveCount, toHaveValue and their not forms), automatic screenshot/trace/video attachments, attach(), spec retries (it retries argument, retries bundle or method annotation, --retries), rerunning failures with --failed, starting the app with --web-server/--web-server-url/--web-server-timeout, CI setup, and debugging failed browser specs with bxPlaywright show-trace.
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Use this skill when using the TestBox $assert object for xUnit-style assertions: isTrue, isFalse, isTruthy, isFalsy, isEqual, isSameInstance, includes, includesAll, includesAny, includesNone, isEmpty, key, deepKey, instanceOf, throws, between, closeTo, lengthOf, match, null, typeOf, isJSON and others; grouping assertions with $assert.all() / assertAll() so every failure is reported at once; registering custom assertion functions with addAssertions(); or using BoxLang dynamic assertion methods (assertIsTrue, assertBetween, etc.).
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Use this skill when creating mocks, stubs, and spies in TestBox using MockBox: createMock(), createEmptyMock(), prepareMock(), stubbing methods with $(), chaining $args()/$results()/$throws() (including order-independent struct matching and BoxLang Set/Range arguments), verifying call counts with $once()/$never()/$times()/$atLeast()/$atMost(), reading call logs with $callLog(), injecting mock properties with $property(), simulating queries with querySim(), or spying on real methods with $spy().
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Use this skill when setting up code coverage analysis for ColdBox/ColdFusion/BoxLang applications, configuring coverage reporting, enabling coverage on the CFML web runner with the coverageEnabled URL parameter (opt-in since TestBox 7.1), integrating coverage with CI pipelines, using TestBox coverage options, interpreting coverage metrics, or improving test coverage of untested code paths.
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Use this skill when generating realistic fake/mock data in tests using cbMockData (WireBox ID: MockData@cbMockData): age, boolean, date, datetime, email, fname, lname, name, num, sentence, ssn, string, tel, uuid, url, words, lorem, baconlorem, imageurl, ipaddress, autoincrement, oneof, rnd/rand; generating arrays of objects, nested objects, arrays of values, or using custom supplier closures.
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Use this skill when creating test fixtures, factory patterns, or test data builders in ColdBox/TestBox, setting up shared fixture files, creating user/model factories with overrides, using cbMockData for realistic fake data generation, or managing test data setup and teardown.
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Use this skill when implementing TestBox run listeners (callbacks): onBundleStart, onBundleEnd, onSuiteStart, onSuiteEnd, onSpecStart, onSpecEnd; building progress indicators, custom loggers, or live dashboards that react to test lifecycle events; or passing listener callbacks to TestBox's run(), runRaw(), or the standalone runner.
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