Re: [Boost-testing] [serialization] Order dependency between unit tests?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-11 19:46:55

nope - you're exactly correct.  I don't know that the tests are executed in 
alphabetical order - that would certainly be interesting news to me.  Are 
you sure they're not being executed in order they're placed in the Jamfile?

In any case, you can ignore any such failures.

Robert Ramey

Carl Daniel wrote:
> My latest VC8_weekly regression run still shows multiple failures for
> the serialization library.  Looking into the details, all of the
> test_class_info_load_* tests fail, while all of the
> test_class_info_save_* tests pass.  Looking at the source code for
> the load tests, it looks as though there's a dependency in the load
> tests on having already executed the save tests, but when executed in
> alphabetical order (which seems to be the default), the load tests
> are executed first, thus guaranteeing that the load tests will never
> pass.
> Am I missing something obvious?
>
> -cd