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

Don't rely on the order. If they use some common state like the filesystem or database, then you should create setUp and tearDown methods that get your environment into a testable state, then clean up after the tests have run. Each test should assume that the environment is as defined in setUp, and should make no further assumptions.