I looked at this again this morning and it appears that unit tests within a test class do run in alphabetical order after all. This is handled by the sortTestMethodsUsing property of the TestLoader class of the unittest lib itself. Maybe this has changed in a newer version, but in mine (2.4.4) this is the case.
To provide a solution to my own problem: it's possible to catch the KeyboardInterrupt exception by overriding the 'run' method of the TestCase class. Seeing as it might be useful to some, I've made a tiny snippet out of it: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/247/ regards, Simon On May 18, 12:55 pm, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, should have refreshed before replying...I had placed a test_a, > test_z, test_zz in a particulartestclass and they ran > alphabetically, but that was probably a coincidence apparently. > > Too bad this can't be done (yet). Thanks for the info anyway. > > regards, > Simon > > On May 18, 12:49 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 5/18/07, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have unit tests for a particular app that take about 2 minutes to > > > complete. Needless to say, adding new unit tests to this app and > > > running them is a time consuming process. I know that the old unit > > > tests will succeed and am basically only interested in the results for > > > the new unittest. > > > > As far as I can tell, unit tests get run in reversed order (newer > > > first). > > > Incorrect. They run in dictionary order (which is to say, effectively > > random order) within any giventestclass.Testclasses for an > > application are run in the the order they are defined in models.py, > > followed by any tests defined in tests.py. Each application is tested > > in the order listed in INSTALLED_APPS. > > > > Is there a way to achieve what I want? > > > Not at the moment. I've been meaning to revisit thetestrunnerto add > > the ability to run a specifictestcase ortestclass by name, but I > > haven't had a chance to work on this yet. > > > Yours, > > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
