How to reorder NUnit tests under CCNet?

Question

With continuous integration, it makes a lot of sense to re-run failed unit tests first the next time a cycle starts. This shortens the feedback loop.

Is there any known way to achieve this with CCNet and NUnit?

In principle, CCNet would have to have "memory" of which unit tests failed and NUnit would need to be instructed to run them in a different order.

Answer 1

This would be against a principle of (unit) testing, that says that the ordering of tests has to be totally random (to make sure, that there is no dependency whatsoever between the individual tests).

So the answer is: No.

Btw.: How would this make sense and shorten the feedback cycle?

Thomas