From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T06:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit -> order of tests?

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 5:35:12 AM, Paul wrote:

> 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).

I'm no UT expert, but there *must* be another way to achieve this
without relying on order of tests.

If you reply on it, it's better style to make that explicit rather
than implicit, IMO.

Gavin