Op 2006-01-09, Tim Peters schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Antoon Pardon] >> I have used unit tests now for a number of project. One thing >> that I dislike is it that the order in which the tests are done >> bears no relationship to the order they appear in the source. >> >> This makes using unit tests somewhat cumbersome. Is there some >> way to force the tests being done in a particular order? > > They're run in alphabetical order, sorting on the test methods' names. > For that reason some people name test methods like 'test_001', > 'test_002', ..., although unit tests really "shouldn't" case which > order they get run in.
Well maybe unit tests shouldn't care (Thats what I think you meant), I care. Some methods are vital for the functionality of other methods. So it the test for the first method fails it is very likely a number of other methods will fail too. However I'm not interrested in the results of those other tests in that case. Having to weed through all the test results in order to check first if the vital methods are working before checking other methods is cumbersome. Having the vital methods tested first and ignore the rest of the results if they fail is much easier. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
