From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T04:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit run order


On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:15 , Dylan wrote:

> Hey there! I had a question about the order tests are run in
> Test::Unit. I have a class with about 10 tests and I'd like to be able
> to better control the order they run in. Right now they just run
> alphabetically [...]

order dependent tests are a bug. every single test should be able to  
run and pass in isolation. eg:

% ruby -Ilib test/test_something.rb -n test_one_test

should always pass no matter what the file or test name is.