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Rust Testing Patterns

Guides an agent through Rust unit, integration, async, property-based and mocked tests using TDD.

Repository
affaan-m/ECC
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295,127
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

When installed, the agent follows a documented set of Rust testing practices: writing tests first (red, green, refactor), organising unit and integration tests, testing errors and panics, running async tests with Tokio, parameterised tests with rstest, and property-based tests with proptest. It also suggests mockall for isolating dependencies and cargo-llvm-cov to check coverage against an 80% target. The file is a written guide with code examples; it contains no scripts of its own.

Great for

  • Rust developers who want consistent, test-first habits when writing new functions or traits
  • Teams adding test coverage to existing Rust code
  • Developers learning which Rust testing crates (rstest, proptest, mockall) to use

Skip it if

  • Non-Rust projects, since the examples only apply to Rust (no reason to install it elsewhere)
  • Projects that already have an established testing convention that conflicts with these patterns, as the agent may push its own style

Try asking

  • “Write failing tests first for a new Rust function that parses a config file, then implement it”
  • “Add unit tests to my user.rs module covering invalid email handling”
  • “Set up proptest round-trip tests for my encode and decode functions”
  • “Check whether my crate reaches 80% coverage using cargo-llvm-cov”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Rust Testing PatternsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    rust-testing.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip rust-testing.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip rust-testing.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Ask the agent to run cargo test after each step so the red and green stages are actually observed
  • Name the crates you already use so the agent follows your project's dependencies rather than adding new ones
  • Review any dependency the agent adds to Cargo.toml before accepting it

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from affaan-m/ECC under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.