Re: [Module-build-general] sorting tests

[David W. <da...@wh...>]

On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 02:28  AM, Ken Williams wrote:

> Yeah, I agree that TEST_FILES is handy, and some kind of selector 
> mechanism like that should be in M::B.  Not sure what the syntax 
> should look like yet.  Internally, it should just generate a list of 
> files to run.

While I think that this is a decent feature, I think that really we 
should discourage people from ordering their tests. In an ideal testing 
environment, tests won't have dependencies on each other, and order 
shouldn't matter. The docs ought to say that, IMO, and point to some 
decent documentation or tutorial on unit testing.

That said, I've been known to name tests so that they execute in a 
certain order, myself. :-\

David

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