Mitchell Hashimoto • 1/21/2026

Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in Zig

Read Original

This article discusses Tripwire, a library for Zig that injects failures to test error handling paths, focusing on the challenges of testing error recovery with `errdefer`. It explains Zig's error handling mechanics and why error cleanup is prone to bugs, offering a tool to improve testing of these critical code paths.

0 comments
#testing #error handling #Zig
Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in Zig

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

1
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
Simon Willison • 2 votes
2
Top picks — 2026 January
Paweł Grzybek • 1 votes
3
In Praise of –dry-run
Henrik Warne • 1 votes
4
Deep Learning is Powerful Because It Makes Hard Things Easy - Reflections 10 Years On
Ferenc Huszár • 1 votes
5
Vibe coding your first iOS app
William Denniss • 1 votes
6
AGI, ASI, A*I – Do we have all we need to get there?
John D. Cook • 1 votes
7
Dew Drop – January 15, 2026 (#4583)
Alvin Ashcraft • 1 votes