> I've been thinking about implementing a test ordering scheme for Apache
> test and wanted to run it by everyone...
>
> basically from
> t/foo.t
> t/bar.t
>
> I'd like to be able to specify whether foo.t comes before or after bar.t
> (without calling them 1foo.t :)
> my reasoning is that it makes more sense to first check whether a module
> can be loaded, then check if it works alone, then check if it works as part
> of a filter, but meaningful names don't always correspond to run order.
But aren't you usually test the module for loading in the same test file?
Another suggestion can be to have a few subdirs with importance order:
1init/*t
2normal/*t
Also the current test frameworks proceeds with running other tests, no
matter what was the return status of the tests run earlier == tests are
independent. So even if you provide a specified order and the early tests
fail because something doesn't load, subsequent tests will be still run.
What's the gain?
Also how about specifying the order in the Makefile.PL? I think Brian
Moseley has asked for the same a few weeks ago and ended up using the
Makefile.PL, see the earlier thread about ordering.
> anyway, I was thinking of something like a file called test.order, which
> could be defined in t/ or any subdirectory and used to specify the exact run
> order. if the intersection of the files in test.order and the actual files
> isn't null, bag it.
>
> sound reasonable? I'm certainly open to other implementation schemes...
Of course we can implement anything we need, but first I'm trying to
understand the need ;)
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