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Test Architect (TEA)

Learn Testing with TEA Academy

Learn Testing with TEA Academy

Section titled “Learn Testing with TEA Academy”

TEA Academy teaches testing through 7 progressive sessions with quizzes and saved progress. This tutorial walks you through starting it and completing Session 1. Budget 45 minutes.

Who it is for: QA engineers, developers, leads, and managers learning testing.

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • BMad installed with the TEA module (npx bmad-method install)

Step 1: Start the Workflow

Section titled “Step 1: Start the Workflow”
  • Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf: /bmad-teach-me-testing
  • Codex: $bmad-teach-me-testing
  • Inside a /bmad-tea chat: TMT

Full invocation rules: Invoking a TEA Workflow.

Step 2: Answer the Assessment

Section titled “Step 2: Answer the Assessment”

On a first run, the workflow asks four questions before showing you anything:

  1. Your role: QA, Dev, Lead, or VP. This picks the examples used throughout.
  2. Experience level: beginner, intermediate, or experienced. This picks your recommended path.
  3. Learning goals: what you want out of the course.
  4. Pain points (optional): what is going wrong on your current project.

Answer as your real role. A “Lead” answer produces architecture and code-review examples; a “Dev” answer produces TDD and API-testing examples for the same concepts.

The session menu appears next, showing all 7 sessions with completion state and a recommended next session.

Step 3: Complete Session 1

Section titled “Step 3: Complete Session 1”

Pick Session 1: Quick Start (30 minutes). It runs in four beats:

  1. Teaching. What TEA is, the TEA Lite 30-minute path, the 9 workflows, and the 5 engagement models, with examples matched to the role you gave.
  2. Quiz. Three questions. 70% or higher passes. If you score lower, choose [R] to review the content again or [C] to continue with the score recorded.
  3. Session notes. The workflow writes session-01-notes.md with the key takeaways.
  4. Back to the menu. Pick the next session or exit. You can jump to any session; they are independent.

Step 4: Confirm Your Progress Saved

Section titled “Step 4: Confirm Your Progress Saved”

Progress is written after the assessment, after each quiz, after each set of session notes, and on exit. Look under your configured test_artifacts folder (default docs/test-artifacts):

docs/test-artifacts/
├── teaching-progress/
│   └── alex-tea-progress.yaml
└── tea-academy/
    └── alex/
        └── session-01-notes.md

Run the workflow again at any time. It detects the progress file, shows your dashboard, and offers to resume.

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”

You have completed one session of seven. The rest cover core concepts, architecture patterns, test design, ATDD and automate, quality and trace, and a menu-driven tour of the 59 knowledge fragments.