[TIP] alphabetical order in testing

[Michael Foord]

On 20/01/2010 15:26, Olemis Lang wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Olemis Lang<olemis at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, C. Titus Brown<ctb at msu.edu>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:12:29AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:42 AM, holger krekel<holger at merlinux.eu>  wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> Some way of telling a test runner to consider tests in a certain
>>>>> order makes sense to me, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, I had user requests and own thoughts to allow declaring dependencies -
>>>>> such that if a test fails subsequent ones would not be run anymore.
>>>>>            
>>>> Probably (I don't know the exact details ;o), but if the first test
>>>> fails that (should ?) means that something is not right (i.e. behaving
>>>> like expected) with the SUT .
>>>>          
>>> Olemis, et al. -- independence of test order is generally considered a
>>> requirement for unit tests, but not for other tests (functional, UI, etc.)
>>> where it simply wouldn't make sense.
>>>        

I always write my function / integration tests to be order independent - 
grouping them in classes with common setup if the application needs to 
be put in a certain state for the tests to work.

Writing functional or UI tests to depend on each other seems to me just 
as bad as for unit tests.

Michael Foord


>>>        
> BTW, D'u have some (concrete ?) examples illustrating this ?
>
>    


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