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.

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landr0id 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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trollbridge 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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seanhunter an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It’s a horrible saying in that context also.

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sunshowers 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah that was indeed the inspiration (though I'm pretty sure it predates Kubernetes!) but the juxtaposition with "terminate" is unfortunate.

	▲	wojciii 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I liked the way it was phrased. You can't make everybody happy. :)

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sunshowers 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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

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gdcbe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you very much for developing nextest. It is what allows our projects like rama [1] to run thousands and thousands of tests in a blink of an eye! Keep it up!

[1] https://ramaproxy.org

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mrec 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have there been any discussions about upstreaming this into cargo proper? Are there any significant downsides to nextest compared to its predecessor?

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sunshowers 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The How it works [1] and Why process-per-test? [2] pages should answer your questions.

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

[2] https://nexte.st/docs/design/why-process-per-test/

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mrec 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, I see. You're aiming to become the hashbrown of testing.

	▲	sunshowers 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh gosh, were we to be so lucky :) just aiming to solve problems my coworkers and users see, and doing it with care, is all.