IMHO, it would be nice if they were run in the order they were defined.

-mike

ahoward wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Mauricio FernáÏdez wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'm new to Unit Testing and wanted to learn on it by writing the tests for a
>>cheap file-transfer protocol. There's some hand-shaking involved at the
>>beginning which _needs_ to be done before anything else. The problem is I'd
>>like to test that too, but I don't know if I can rely on any order in the
>>execution of the tests. OTOH, I don't know if it's OK to do everything in
>>#setup and do the assertions right there.
>>    
>>
>
>i had a similar problem.  nameing your tests in a manner which sorts lexically
>seems to work, eg :
>
>  def test_a_whatever
>    ...
>  end
>
>  def test_b_whatever
>    ...
>  end
>
>-a
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