From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-05-20T23:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Test cases dependencies?

You can find huge discussion waves on the subject in ruby-talk archives
(www.ruby-talk.org), one of them quite recently.

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent@datarescue.be>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:00 AM
Subject: Test cases dependencies?


> Hi rubyists ;-)
>
> Is it possible to create dependencies between ``test_'' methods, in a
> Test::Unit::TestCase object?
>
> For instance, imagine the following:
>
>    # Tests the ``foo'' library.
>    require 'test/unit'
>    class TC_foo < Test::Unit::TestCase
>        def test_init
>            # Test if the foo library can be initialized.
>        end
>        def test_bar
>            # Test the ``bar'' method of the foo library.
>            # This test requires that the library was
>            # correctly initialized before.
>        end
>    end
>
> If I run this sample, Test::Unit will firstly execute ``test_bar'', and
> secondly ``test_init'', because ``bar'' cames before ``init'' in the
> alphabetical order.
>
> I would like that ``test_bar'' depends of ``test_init''.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Laurent
>
>
>