Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI(nexte.st)

55 points by nateb2022 3 days ago | 12 comments

sunshowers 1 hour 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.

landr0id 55 minutes 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 38 minutes 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 38 minutes ago | | |

That's fair! I'll find a way to rephrase it.

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

satvikpendem 1 hour ago |

I love nextest, it's been great. This along with bacon catches a lot of issues.

patates 1 hour ago |

I somehow tried to make sense of the name as a superlative form of "next". Perhaps next-test would have been fine?

sunshowers 1 hour ago | |

That is indeed the pun =)

esafak 2 hours ago |

Anybody using this in production?

edit: Thanks, will try!

aabhay 16 seconds ago | |

Yep. Tokio uses it for their tests in CI as well last I checked.

tekacs 2 hours ago | |

Yes, for a long while – I believe it's fairly widely used (and it's absolutely excellent!)

DennisL123 1 hour ago | |

Yes, been using it for 18’ish months. Works great.

merqurio 1 hour ago | |

Happy user here !