[Python-Dev] order of unittest.TestCase execution?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

    SM> No, I was just trying to mimic the structure of the
    SM> test_xmlrpc.py module.  It put all the cases into one class,
    SM> so I did to.  I realized I wanted to run the creation test
    SM> before the others and noticed that it was executing them in
    SM> alphabetical order.  I was just wondering if I could rely on
    SM> that or if that was just a quirk of either the current
    SM> test_support or unittest implementations and couldn't be
    SM> relied on.

I don't think you should count on execution order.  I don't think it's
guaranteed and it will make your tests much more fragile.

-Barry