[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

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[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

sbspider added the comment: Right makes sense. I'll see what I can do. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

Michael Foord added the comment: The point is that it is easy to have unintentional dependencies between tests. Test a sets up some state that test b relies on. This means that test b passes, so long as test a has already run. This is bad, tests should be isolated - it also means you can break

[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

sbspider added the comment: And what do you think would it be useful for? I mean, it shouldn't be too hard to implement, a couple of hours at most, but I can't seem to see what would be the purpose. However, if you think that there is enough of a use case behind it, then I would be happy to ha

[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

Robert Collins added the comment: b) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org

[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

sbspider added the comment: To clarify - are you querying about a) Randomiser for tests, so that tests can have random variables or b) That the order in which tests are called should have the option to be randomized ? -- nosy: +sbspider ___ Pytho

[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

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[issue22813] No facility for test randomisation

New submission from Robert Collins: Unittest doesn't support a test randomisation feature. Such a feature should support: - passing in a seed (to allow reproducing the order for debugging) - preserving the suite hierarchy, to preserve class and module setUp performance optimisations - and ra