[Antoon Pardon] > I have used unit tests now for a number of project. One thing > that I dislike is it that the order in which the tests are done > bears no relationship to the order they appear in the source. > > This makes using unit tests somewhat cumbersome. Is there some > way to force the tests being done in a particular order?
They're run in alphabetical order, sorting on the test methods' names. For that reason some people name test methods like 'test_001', 'test_002', ..., although unit tests really "shouldn't" case which order they get run in. Sometimes this is abused in a different way, by naming a setup kind of method starting with AAA and its corresponding teardown kind of method with zzz. You could presumably change the sort order by subclassing TestLoader and overriding its class-level .sortTestMethodsUsing attribute (which is `cmp` in TestLoader). Sounds painful and useless to me, though ;-) The source-code order isn't available in any case (unittest doesn't analyze source code). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
