From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T03:35:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit -> order of tests?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:12:14AM +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> 
> I humbly disagree with this.  If the order of the tests is guaranteed, it 
> would promote temporal coupling between the test cases.  It's better to 
> let each "test..." method stand alone without dependencies on the other 
> methods.

I disagree with this.  I have a test that check for a specific bug in
our software.  The bug caused the software to segfault.  I prefer to run
this test after all my other tests (since otherwise some of the tests
may not get run at all in the nightly build).

Paul