Can You Specify the Order of Test Execution in VS 2005 Test Engine?

Question

I am using the provided Unit Test Engine in Visual Studio 2005 and am wondering if there is a way for me to specify the order of tests. I have numerous test classes and numerous test methods inside of each. I would like to control the order in which the test classes are executed and the order of the test methods in each.

Answer 1

Why? Actually tests are supposed to be able to run alone. If you need to execute some particular code before running a test you should have that in your test class:

//Use TestInitialize to run code before running each test
[TestInitialize()]
public void MyTestInitialize()
{
}

//Use TestCleanup to run code after each test has run
[TestCleanup()]
public void MyTestCleanup()
{
}

I don't think the order of your test execution should matter. But if you really need to order them fellow Matthew Whited link.

Answer 2

you can use Ordered Tests

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182629(VS.80).aspx