Unittest tests order

Question

How do I be sure of the unittest methods order? Is the alphabetical or numeric prefixes the proper way?

class TestFoo(TestCase):
    def test_1(self):
               


        

Answer 1

See the example of WidgetTestCase on http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#organizing-test-code , it says that

Class instances will now each run one of the test_*() methods, with self.widget created and destroyed separately for each instance.

So it might be of no use to specify the order of test cases, if you do not access global variables.