Re: [Boost-users] boost.test - Can you determine order that Auto Test and Auto Suites will run among several test files?

From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-03 05:17:31

Ed Johnson wrote:
> When using BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE or BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE across
> multiple files, is there a way to guarantee which Test Case or Suite
> will execute last?

In general you should never write your unit tests to depend on a specific 
order of execution, but as you're not really writing a test ...

>
> In particular, I want the following test to always be executed last.
>
> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(waitForUserToPressEnter)
> {
> std::cout << "Press <ENTER> to continue..." << std::endl;
> std::cin.get();
> }

I haven't tried this, but what might work is using a global fixture (i.e. 
BOOST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE) and put the above stuff in its destructor.

// Johan