From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T01:57:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit -> order of tests?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> I'm new to Unit Testing and wanted to learn on it by writing the tests for a
> cheap file-transfer protocol. There's some hand-shaking involved at the
> beginning which _needs_ to be done before anything else. The problem is I'd
> like to test that too, but I don't know if I can rely on any order in the
> execution of the tests. OTOH, I don't know if it's OK to do everything in
> #setup and do the assertions right there.

i had a similar problem.  nameing your tests in a manner which sorts lexically
seems to work, eg :

  def test_a_whatever
    ...
  end

  def test_b_whatever
    ...
  end

-a

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