chore: try switching to cargo nextest to speed up CI builds (#3323)

I started looking at https://nexte.st/ because I was interested in a
test harness that lets a test dynamically declare itself "skipped,"
which would be a nice alternative to this pattern:


4c46490e53/codex-rs/core/tests/suite/cli_stream.rs (L22-L27)

ChatGPT pointed me at https://nexte.st/, which also claims to be "up to
3x as fast as cargo test." Locally, in `codex-rs`, I see

- `cargo nextest run` finishes in 19s
- `cargo test` finishes in 37s

Though looking at CI, the wins are quite as big, presumably because my
laptop has more cores than our GitHub runners (which is a separate
issue...). Comparing the [CI jobs from this
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/17561325162/job/49878216246?pr=3323)
with that of a [recent open
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/17561066581/job/49877342753?pr=3321):

| | `cargo test` | `cargo nextest` |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------ |
--------------- |
| `macos-14 - aarch64-apple-darwin` | 2m16s | 1m51s |
| `macos-14 - aarch64-apple-darwin` | 5m04s | 3m44s |
| `ubuntu-24.04 - x86_64-unknown-linux-musl` | 2m02s | 1m56s |
| `ubuntu-24.04-arm - aarch64-unknown-linux-musl` | 2m01s | 1m35s |
| `windows-latest - x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` | 3m07s | 2m53s |
| `windows-11-arm - aarch64-pc-windows-msvc` | 3m10s | 2m45s |

I thought that, to start, we would only make this change in CI before
declaring it the "official" way for the team to run the test suite.

Though unfortunately, I do not believe that `cargo nextest` _actually_
supports a dynamic skip feature, so I guess I'll have to keep looking?
Some related discussions:

- https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-skippable-tests/14611
- https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/skippable-tests/21260
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Michael Bolin
2025-09-08 21:39:18 -07:00
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v5
- uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.89
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@v2
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@0c5db7f7f897c03b771660e91d065338615679f4 # v2
with:
tool: cargo-shear
version: 1.5.1
@@ -178,12 +178,17 @@ jobs:
find . -name Cargo.toml -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -print0 \
| xargs -0 -n1 -I{} bash -c 'cd "$(dirname "{}")" && cargo check --profile ${{ matrix.profile }}'
- name: cargo test
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@0c5db7f7f897c03b771660e91d065338615679f4 # v2
with:
tool: nextest
version: 0.9.103
- name: tests
id: test
# `cargo test` takes too long for release builds to run them on every PR
# Tests take too long for release builds to run them on every PR.
if: ${{ matrix.profile != 'release' }}
continue-on-error: true
run: cargo test --all-features --target ${{ matrix.target }} --profile ${{ matrix.profile }}
run: cargo nextest run --all-features --target ${{ matrix.target }}
env:
RUST_BACKTRACE: 1