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Question Is it possible to change the order of tests on Unity Test Runner?

Discussion in 'Testing & Automation' started by abeldantas, Nov 3, 2018.

  1. abeldantas

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    I like sorting the test from more to less specific, that's how tests are sorted on my classes.

    On the Unity Test Runner they are sorted alphabetically.

    Any way to change the order?
     
  2. ElvisAlistar

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  3. gtzpower

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    Not sure if this was a new feature added recently, but it does appear that the "order" attribute affects the order in which tests run. For example:
    Code (CSharp):
    1. [UnityTest, Order(1)]
     
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  4. ElvisAlistar

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    It's a feature added in NUnit 3.8, only works well in 3.8.1. The NUnit that is packaged in Unity is older, so this attribute would not be supported there.

    Relevant discussion and feature request in https://forum.unity.com/threads/changing-the-bundled-nunit-version.637549/#post-4575238
     
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  5. Warnecke

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    In the build in version of unity the Order attribute work for customizing the order of the tests within the same fixture, but on a fixture and higher level, it does not work.
     
  6. Stormy102

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    This works absolutely fine for us in 2019.1. A lot of our tests are dependent on certain preconditions, such as loading a scene. I'm assuming that this will still be working in 2019.2?
     
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  7. tsibiski

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    I just want to note that there are several alternative frameworks here.

    In particular, Trilleon is also a unit test framework, and it supports all the ordering you could possibly imagine. From ordering your tests explicitly one-by-one based on the relationships you know each test has. You can mark tests as dependencies of one another across the entire framework, creating a "dependency web". If the test runner gets to a test and sees that a dependency has not yet run, it will defer that test until its dependency has run etc.

    Additionally, the framework validates valid usage of this dependency and ordering system so that you cannot accidentally create loops in dependencies.
     
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