How to have unittest tests to be executed in the order they appear?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
"Giampaolo Rodola'" <gnewsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
> Is there a way to force unittest to run test methods in the order they
> appear?

Since they run in alphabetical order why not just rename them to the
order you want them to run?  Something like this:

  def test_010_z(self):
  def test_020_b(self):
  def test_030_d(self):

Note the numbering scheme that allows tests to be added between the
existing ones if necessary.

However, do consider writing your tests so that order is irrelevant.
If a test depends on a previous test running then it isn't a proprt
self-contained test.  For one thing, you can't run a single test that
way if you wanted to.

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