<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Gary Bernhardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.bernhardt@gmail.com">gary.bernhardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Alfredo Deza <<a href="mailto:alfredodeza@gmail.com">alfredodeza@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Would it be OK to alter the naming in the methods to make sure they are run<br>
> in the order I need to? Even if the naming gets really weird like:<br>
<br>
</div>Never! Extract the required functionality into a separate function and<br>
have both tests call it. If this is a slow-running system test and<br>
that shared functionality is too expensive to run for each test, then<br>
do it in the setup and let the tests rely on that.<br>
<br>
Tests should always work regardless of execution order! :)<br></blockquote><div><br>Ok good point. It is weird though, to get involved with tests and find that execution<br>is done differently (e.g. alphabetical order). <br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> Or is there a different/better way to do this? I am thinking something like<br>
> breaking the above example in 2 different classes and creating the setUp()<br>
> and tearDown() methods for each, but wouldn't that be a little redundant?<br>
<br>
</div>If it's truly redundant, you'll be able to merge them without relying<br>
on test order. If you can't do that, then the existence of two<br>
different classes is expressing the natural differences in the test<br>
scenarios.<br>
<br>
If the tests want to be separate, but you force them together by<br>
making them order-dependent, what you're really doing is trading away<br>
correctness to gain some terseness. That's dangerous! :)<br></blockquote><div><br>No, I am jut trying to see what is the best approach. If I need to separate the tests, this is OK. I just want<br>to make sure I am not writing code that someone (maybe me?) will read this code later on and <br>
bang their heads against the screen. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Gary<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alfredo Deza<br><br>