5 comments

  • sunshowers 2 hours ago
    Thanks for posting about this! I'm the main author of nextest, and it represents my best foot forward for how Rust testing should be done. Happy to answer questions though I might be a bit intermittent.
    • mrec 9 minutes ago
      Have there been any discussions about upstreaming this into cargo proper? Are there any significant downsides to nextest compared to its predecessor?
    • landr0id 1 hour ago
      Big fan of nextest and this is my first time seeing this site. I'll be real I feel a bit ridiculous commenting this but you might want to consider rephrasing this:

      >Treat tests as cattle, not pets. Detect and terminate slow tests.

      Not sure saying, "hey, treat your tests as an animal you can kill at will" paints the right image.

      • trollbridge 1 hour ago
        This is from the Kubernetes saying of "treat servers like cattle, not pets". Of course, some people like me keep cattle as pets, but then again I also name my servers, even the virtual or containerised ones.
        • sunshowers 1 hour ago
          Yeah that was indeed the inspiration (though I'm pretty sure it predates Kubernetes!) but the juxtaposition with "terminate" is unfortunate.
          • wojciii 45 minutes ago
            I liked the way it was phrased. You can't make everybody happy. :)
      • sunshowers 1 hour ago
        That's fair! I'll find a way to rephrase it.

        edit: Updated to "Detect and handle slow tests". Thanks again!

  • weinzierl 43 minutes ago
    The "execution model" page[1] is documentation at its best!

    It answered 90% of the questions I had at the monent. Thank you!

    [1] https://nexte.st/docs/design/how-it-works/

  • satvikpendem 1 hour ago
    I love nextest, it's been great. This along with bacon catches a lot of issues.
  • patates 2 hours ago
    I somehow tried to make sense of the name as a superlative form of "next". Perhaps next-test would have been fine?
    • sunshowers 2 hours ago
      That is indeed the pun =)
      • patates 46 minutes ago
        Oh, sorry then, thanks for the clarification :)
  • esafak 3 hours ago
    Anybody using this in production?

    edit: Thanks, will try!

    • tekacs 3 hours ago
      Yes, for a long while – I believe it's fairly widely used (and it's absolutely excellent!)
    • aabhay 50 minutes ago
      Yep. Tokio uses it for their tests in CI as well last I checked.
    • DennisL123 2 hours ago
      Yes, been using it for 18’ish months. Works great.
    • merqurio 2 hours ago
      Happy user here !