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Learn Testing with TEA Academy

Learn Testing with TEA Academy

Section titled “Learn Testing with TEA Academy”

TEA Academy has seven testing sessions with quizzes and saved progress. This tutorial covers Session 1. Allow 45 minutes for setup and the session.

For QA engineers, developers, leads, and managers learning testing.

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • An AI coding assistant that supports skills, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or Codex
  • BMad core and TEA installed, then bmad setup tea run in your assistant chat; follow Install BMad Method and TEA, which also lists Node.js and uv
  • A user_name in your BMad core configuration; the skill names your progress and notes files with it

Step 1: Start the Skill

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

Full invocation rules: Invoking a TEA Skill.

Step 2: Answer the Assessment

Section titled “Step 2: Answer the Assessment”

On a first run, answer four assessment questions:

  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):

  1. Teaching. What TEA is, the TEA Lite 30-minute path, the skill menu, 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 skill 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 saved after the assessment, each quiz, session notes, and exit. Look under your configured test_artifacts folder (default _bmad-output/test-artifacts); alex stands for your user_name:

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

Run the skill again to see your saved progress and resume.

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”

The remaining sessions cover testing concepts, architecture, test design, ATDD, automation, review, traceability, and the knowledge base.