unittest - sort cases to be run

Tue Aug 21 13:27:33 EDT 2012

On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:34:33 AM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/21/2012 5:09 AM, Kevin Zhang wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I want to sort the order of the unittest cases to be run, but found such
>> > statement in Python doc,
>> > "Note that the order in which the various test cases will be run is
>> > determined by sorting the test function names with respect to the
>> > built-in ordering for strings."
>> >
>> > s.addTest(BTest())
>> > s.addTest(ATest())
>> > TextTestRunner().run(ts)
>> >
>> > I need BTest() to be run prior to ATest(), is there any
>> > natural/beautiful way to achieve this? Thanks,

If BTest *has* to run prior to ATest, it could be a code smell.