How to Order NUnit Tests

Question

More than once the question has been asked on SO. But the only answers that are given read \"you should not need to order your unit tests, it is bad because\" or \"you can

Answer 1

Just an update for NUnit 2.5.1. According to documentation there are cases that even alphabetical order is not supported.

NUnit TestCaseAttribute

Order of Execution

In NUnit 2.5, individual test cases are sorted alphabetically and executed in that order. With NUnit 2.5.1, the individual cases are not sorted, but are executed in the order in which NUnit discovers them. This order does not follow the lexical order of the attributes and will often vary between different compilers or different versions of the CLR.

As a result, when TestCaseAttribute appears multiple times on a method or when other data-providing attributes are used in combination with TestCaseAttribute, the order of the test cases is undefined.