Re: RubyUnit Test Ordering

Yeah, your comments on the unit test ordering make sense. Thanks everybody 
for your advice!

Regarding Simon's comment "btw: it seems you are using 'test/unit'.  :-)" I 
do have one more question. I was originally using this in my test file:

class SomeTest < RUNIT::TestCase

but noticed that I could use Test::Unit instead and get output that I 
preferred sometimes (if I don't need to see that stack trace for example):

class SomeTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

but Simon's comment would seem to indicate that I shouldn't be doing that. 
If you subclass Test::Unit::TestCase in your test file, then the self.suite 
methods in RUNIT::TestCase and Test::Unit::TestCase are both called. 
However, if you subclass RUNIT::TestCase then the self.suite method in 
Test::Unit::TestCase is never called. I found it strange that the method 
was never called, so I assumed that subclassing Test::Unit::TestCase was 
the way to go. I saw several examples online that subclassed 
RUNIT::TestCase but I thought they might have been old examples or 
something. So is subclassing RUNIT::TestCase definitely the right thing to 
do for some reason?

Thanks,

-Jordan

At 04:48 05/06/24 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
>* Jordan Gilliland <[e-mail]> [2005-06-23 21:56:40 +0900]:
>
> > Is this a bug or is it simply not part of the unit testing methodology to
> > have a sequence of tests, assuming some order-independent set of tests
> > instead?
>
>No, not a bug.  The Unit Test police make sure that
>tests are run in random order.
>
>If you need ordering, then you must handle it. The easy
>way to do this is to put order dependent tests in the
>same test_X method, or have that method call the tests,
>where you have defined your order dependent tests
>in methods that do not start with 'test'.
>
>--
>Jim Freeze
>
>
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