I do the same thing. I have a pet-peeve with the xUnit design that runs the tests in a pseudo-random order. I understand the motivation behind it, and I have proper setup and teardown in unit tests, but when doing functional tests I often need to chain tests. I'd rather that tools like JUnit etc. allowed me to specify running them in order or not instead of forcing me to do the "right thing".
-Jonathan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wtr-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cain, Mark > Sent: August 3, 2005 8:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Wtr-general] How to specify the order of execution of the > tests? > > I ran into this in my test also. What I ended up doing is naming my > tests: > def test01_SomeMeaningfulTestName > Code to test stuff > end > > def test02_SomeMeaningfulTestName > Code to test stuff > end > > def test03_SomeMeaningfulTestName > Code to test stuff > End > > Etc. > > Note: 'alphabetical' appears to be ascii based meaning your results may > be unexpected if you use numbers to try and force a specific order of > execution. Which means 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12...will actually be > executed as 1 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. To get around this you would > need to do this: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12... > > Forgive me if the seems overly obvious to you but it is usually the > simple and obvious things that mess me up ;-). > > Hope this helps, > > --Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amita Shetty > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wtr-general] How to specify the order of execution of the > tests? > > Hi, > How to specify the order/sequence of execution of tests while running > all tests in a folder at once? Right now the tests in the folder are > executed in the order of their names alphabetically. > Is there a way to specify the sequence of execution of tests? > > > Thanks in advance > Amitha > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
