On Sep 8, 3:44 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2009, at 14:01, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>
>
>
> > Piero Di Bello wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> How can I have the tests for my Rails app to be executed in a random
> >> order?
>
> > At least with RSpec, specs are executed in unpredictable order. I
> > think
> > it's the same each time, but it's not the order in which they appear
> > in
> > the spec file.
>
> > But why do you need this anyway? Each test should start from a clean
> > slate, so the order should be completely immaterial.
>
> Should, but it is possible for this not to be true. A random order
> would be hard to work with though - Run your suite and a test fails,
> run it again and it doesn't any more.
The whole point of randomizing test execution is to have a better
chance to discover that the tests are not independent. Once you find
a test that fails because of the order of execution, you fix it so
that it does not happen anymore.
Matteo
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