> > I'm trying to find a way to run JUnit test classes in a > > particular order, which is determined by some property of > > each class. I was easily able to pick a subset of test > > Typically, you don't want to do this. Tests should be > independent of each other. JUnit does not guarantee the > order it will run tests within a Test class, and I don't > think Ant guarantees the order it will run tests. > > If you need to run a set of tests in a specific order, you > can construct a test suite by hand in a Java file. If you > want to be able to run a single test, you can use the > technique in Hatcher and Loughran's book on page 103. > > If you're writing tests that depend on ordering, don't.
The Test classes are independent of each other, and I am not concerned about the order in which the tests within a single Test class are run. However, take the case where class A depends on functionality in class B. Having just performed a large transformation across the entire system and broken both low-level and high-level functionality, I need to run all the tests, but there is little point in running TestA until TestB succeeds. My current choices are to run individual tests, manually sorting them into a useful order, or to run all tests, with haltonfailure=no, and manually search for failures in lowest-level classes first. I'd like to automate this by listing the "prerequisites" in a static var in each Test class, and sorting based on that. It seemed like there would be a simple way to do that in Ant, but I don't see it. Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
