diff --git a/script/next-checks/next-checks-generic-tests.sh b/script/next-checks/next-checks-generic-tests.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+
+echo '----------------------------------------------'
+echo '--           Running Cargo tests            --'
+echo '----------------------------------------------'
+
+export LOG_TEST_FILENAME=$(pwd)/next-generic-checks.log
+export RUSTUP_HOME=/usr/local/rustup
+
+# For local runs, we require GERRIT_BRANCH to be set to get the merge-base/diff
+# between the checked out commit and the tip of $GERRIT_BRANCH - for running
+# next tests, usually this will be tfa-next
+export GERRIT_BRANCH=${GERRIT_BRANCH:="tfa-next"}
+
+if [ "$IS_CONTINUOUS_INTEGRATION" == 1 ]; then
+    # git operations e.g. ${get_merge_base} rely on access to tfa-next branch,
+    # we need to access via SSH for that to work currently
+    SSH_PARAMS="-o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -p 29418 -i ${CI_BOT_KEY}"
+    REPO_SSH_URL="ssh://${CI_BOT_USERNAME}@review.trustedfirmware.org:29418/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a"
+    export GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh ${SSH_PARAMS}"
+    git remote set-url origin ${REPO_SSH_URL}
+    git fetch origin
+fi
+
+TEST_CASE="cargo test checks"
+
+echo "# ${TEST_CASE}"
+echo >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME"
+echo "****** $TEST_CASE ******" >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME"
+echo >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME"
+
+cd rust
+
+ERROR_COUNT=0
+
+# Run cargo test
+
+declare -a all_features=($(make PLAT=${platform} --silent list_features))
+# append empty features by default
+all_features+=("")
+
+for features in "${all_features[@]}"; do
+    echo "cargo test features: '$features'" >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME" 2>&1
+    cargo test --features=$features >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME" 2>&1
+
+    if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then
+      echo "cargo test --features='$features': FAILURE"
+      ((ERROR_COUNT++))
+    else
+      echo "cargo test --features='$features': PASS"
+    fi
+
+    echo "-------------------------------------" >> "$LOG_TEST_FILENAME" 2>&1
+done
+
+echo
+
+cd -
+if [ "$ERROR_COUNT" != 0 ]; then
+  echo "Some cargo tests checks have failed."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0