Welcome to two new community members, Chuck Fair and Frank Schaffa!
cargo nextest is a tool for quicker, more reproducible tests
could add some friction in terms of new contributors to install that test runner
we've noticed a ton of flakes in PRs that depend on network/IO lately in wash
nextest does not run serial tests in the way we do with cargo test, which is a small difference. Instead, we can just add serial tests to a test-group with nextest
Roman: Consider constraining nextest to CI, and fix the tests that are flaky, so that we can both take advantage of a better test runner and keep our tests well architected
Frank: How common is nextest in other communities / projects?
Matt: Well supported and fairly popular, but not present in the most popular projects as far as I know
Keep going forward keeping in mind adding another tool is a small barrier and we should make adding the nextest tool as simple as possible
Essentially there are a few places in the wasmCloud dashboard that have placeholders for error messages but we opt to put them in the console instead. As we move forward with a better UX for the dashboard, we'll be looking for opportunities to surface these errors in the UI
