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Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust

You're reading from   Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust Build modular and reactive applications with functional programming techniques in Rust 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839358
Length 249 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Functional Programming – a Comparison 2. Functional Control Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Functional Data Structures 4. Generics and Polymorphism 5. Code Organization and Application Architecture 6. Mutability, Ownership, and Pure Functions 7. Design Patterns 8. Implementing Concurrency 9. Performance, Debugging, and Metaprogramming 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing tests

To run tests from the command line, type cargo test. We will be doing this a lot.

Unit testing

Unit testing focuses on testing internal interfaces and components of a program. It is also called whitebox testing. To first create unit tests, it is a good idea to look at all of the top-level types, traits, and functions. All top-level identifiers make for good test cases. Depending on the structure of the program, it may also be a good idea to test combinations of these components to cover expected use cases.

We have one utility function, the statistic calculation, which would be a good candidate to write a unit test for. However, this function doesn't return any result. Instead, it immediately prints output...

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