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 Testing is critical to making sure starship works as intended on systems big and small. Starship interfaces with many applications and system APIs when generating the prompt, so there's a lot of room for bugs to slip in.
 
-Unit tests are written using the built-in Rust testing library in the same file as the implementation, as is traditionally done in Rust codebases. These tests can be run with `cargo test` and are run on GitHub as part of our GitHub Actions continuous integration to ensure consistend behavior.
+Unit tests are written using the built-in Rust testing library in the same file as the implementation, as is traditionally done in Rust codebases. These tests can be run with `cargo test` and are run on GitHub as part of our GitHub Actions continuous integration to ensure consistent behavior.
 
 All tests that test the rendered output of a module should use `ModuleRenderer`. For Example: