Developer Builds Solana Counter Program in Rust, Uses Bug Injection to Validate Tests

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A developer built a counter program on Solana using Rust and the Anchor framework, focusing on enforcing security constraints through account validation before any instruction logic runs. The program uses Anchor's has_one constraint to ensure only an authorized wallet can increment the counter, rejecting unauthorized transactions at the framework level. Tests were written for both successful initialization and unauthorized increment attempts using LiteSVM, covering happy and failure paths. To verify the test suite's reliability, the developer deliberately introduced a bug by changing the increment value from 1 to 2, which the tests caught immediately. The exercise built confidence in the test harness and highlighted a knowledge gap around Program Derived Addresses, which will be explored next.

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