unittest: Calling tests in liner number order

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Roy Smith schrieb:
> In article 
> <af66b0d4-f77d-4d54-8ee0-94592497d2f2 at l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>  Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also, like others, I have had wonderful experiences of trying to track
>> down test failures that depend on the order that tests run in. Having
>> interdependencies between tests is a recipe for madness...
> 
> I agree that tests should not depend on each other, but sometimes it's 
> still useful to have the tests run in a certain order for reporting 
> purposes.

Then sort your report. Seriously. A test-outpt shoud be in a way that 
delimits individual testresults in a way that makes them easily 
extractable. Then if you want them to be ordered for e.g. diff'ing - 
sort them.

Diez