{"id":18547,"date":"2017-08-04T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2017-08-04T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:42:14","slug":"how-rust-is-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/04\/how-rust-is-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rust Is Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brson.github.io\/2017\/07\/10\/how-rust-is-tested\">Brian Anderson<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14737756\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/brson.github.io\/2017\/07\/10\/how-rust-is-tested\"><p>Rust has a strict continuous integration system that runs a great number of tests on every pull request, basically guaranteeing that the Rust master branch always works; which is crucial because Rust releases nightly builds every night, and stable builds every six weeks. And Rust further tests every release against its entire open source library ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always admired well-tested software projects, like <a href=\"https:\/\/sqlite.org\/testing.html\">SQLite<\/a>, and\naim to place Rust among the pantheon of the best. This document then,\nis a catalog of all the ways we test Rust. I hope it provides insight\ninto what it takes to deliver a production-quality programming\nlanguage, a hint at the wide variety of techniques employed in\nsoftware validation, and that it reinforces your confidence in Rust&rsquo;s\nreliability.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Anderson (via Hacker News): Rust has a strict continuous integration system that runs a great number of tests on every pull request, basically guaranteeing that the Rust master branch always works; which is crucial because Rust releases nightly builds every night, and stable builds every six weeks. And Rust further tests every release against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[255,71,408,268],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-compiler","tag-programming","tag-rust-lang","tag-testing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18548,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}