Is no one interested by that question ? Or maybe I should not reply to a so old question ?
chris christophe blin wrote: > > Hi, > > searching into the nabble archives, I found a thread which talks about my > problem. I quote the relevant part at the end of my message. > > First, I'd like to know if there is finally a possibility to run the JUnit > tests in a specific order when they are executed with surefire ? > > Second, I perfectly agree with David : surefire should run the tests in > the order they are written in the file. > While this is not important for unit tests, this is really important for > integration tests. > The reality is that you do not want to write a integration test that is > 200 lines so you split up the test in various functions. > Then, you'd like that each function is a separate test case to have a > report that indicates precisely at which moment the test fail (it is > easier to know that the 3rd test case failed whereas to read the > stacktrace of the testcase to find where it crashes). > > So my question is : who do not care about the order of integration tests > (i.e how do you do integration testing with surefire not executing the > test cases in the 'right' order) ? > > Best regards, > chris > > > David Jackman wrote: >> >> Actually, JUnit tests do run in a simple and predictable order >> (especially when a test class provides its own suite). I agree that >> it's a bad idea to write tests that depend on their ordering, but it >> should not be the build system that enforces this (especially when the >> XML report is the only way to determine what order surefire used) unless >> it's through a property that explicitly tells it to do so. >> >> ..David.. >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Surefires-test-order-tf734875.html#a6521850 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
