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

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-11 20:24:07

Hmm, then maybe for now we can slightly re-order the tests in the test Jam 
file so that test_class_info_load preceeds test_class_info_save.  Seems to 
me that would improve things in this particular situation.

Robert Ramey

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> 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 case I haven't mentioned it before. They are executed in _reverse_
> order of what they are listed in the Jamfile. This is because of the
> evaluation order that Jam uses for unrolling tail recursion
> internally.
>
> Regardless it's better to reliably create the correct dependencies :-)
> But that's water under the bridge by now.