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Introduction to testing in Rust - Rust Tutorial
From the course: Rust Programming: Beginner to Advanced
Introduction to testing in Rust
Welcome to the video on testing in Rust. Testing is a critical component of software development that helps ensure a code behaves as expected and prevents bugs from making their way into production. Rust, known for its safety and performance, also provides powerful tools for writing tests. In this video, we'll explore the basics of testing in Rust. Rust. By the end of the video, you'll understand how to set up and run unit tests, how to use various assertions and interpret test results, and also how to maintain high code quality. To start, let's set up our environment for testing. We'll create a new Rust library project using Cargo. So when Cargo creates a new library, it automatically includes a test module in the the lib file as you can see here. This test module is annotated with cfg test attribute. And this is a conditional compilation attribute that tells the Rust compiler to include the annotated code, which is the following code, only when we run cargo test command, should you…
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