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Re: Order of Execution
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Posted: May 20, 2003 9:17 PM
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> The order in which the test methods are executed is:
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> 1. Test methods in a Suite will be executed before
> test methods in a Sub-Suite.
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This is true if you are using the implementations of execute, executeSubSuites, and executeTestMethods, that come with Suite. You can override these methods in subclasses if you want different behavior.
> 2. In a Suite, all methods with no parameters are executed
> in order and then all methods that take Reporter in the
> parameter are executed.
>
That's true, but there's no guarantee of any order in the contract of the executeTestMethods method. I say subclasses can define an order if they want. However, I have been thinking I should go ahead and define an order for Suite's executeTestMethods contract in the next release, because I know people often want to execute tests in a particular order. I would guess alphabetical order would be the easiest. Unfortunately, order of appearance in the source file I don't think works, because I don't believe the compiler must put things in the same order in the class file, and I don't know that I can figure out the class file's method order via reflection anyway.
> For example
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> > public class MySuite extends Suite
> {
> public void testFirst()
> {
> // Order : 1
> }
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> public void testSecond()
> {
> // Order : 2
> }
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> public void testFourth( Reporter r )
> {
> // Order : 4
> }
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> public void testThird()
> {
> // Order : 3
> }
> }
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>
> Hope this helps,
> Adam
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