Nowadays your doctor can just take a small blood sample and run a battery of allergy tests on that.
You have to work really hard with a really good allergist to get reliable results.
she will go into anaphylaxis if you wear a jacket you brought to somebody's house who has a cat.
her blood work says the IgE count is fairly low.
they can indicate more testing should be done, but they aren't perfect. neither are skin prick tests. i can dig up some of her reddit comments about it if you're interested.