On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> And so forth. The order in which unittest is running the test is not the >> one given by the code (it seems to be alphabetical?) so that I am not >> guaranteed that my functions are tested in the right order (my real >> tasks of course are not sorted alphabetically). > > In my opinion, if your unit tests need to be run in a specific order, they > aren't sufficiently isolated. But, I accept that sometimes reality bites, > and you have to deal with tests which aren't sufficiently isolated. You > don't have time to fix the tests, and you can't fix the code you're > testing. Sucks to be you...
If the order of test execution affects the overall pass/fail of the test set, then yes, that's a problem. But if, as in the OP's example, some tests assume the correct operation of features tested individually elsewhere, it would be kinda nice to say "do these low-level tests first, and if they pass, go on to test these higher-level features". Is there a way to express that in unittest? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
