Ordering tests using trial twisted

Question

We are thinking of using trial from twisted for our testing. Looking at the documentation, there does not seem to be a way to order the tests specifically, it follows its own based on names. Is there any way to order the tests without using naming conventions?

Answer 1

One can only order alphabetically or "toptobottom" (which executes your tests in the order they're in the code) using trial --order. So if you wanted to execute the tests based on the order they're written in your code, then you'd execute something similar to:

trial --order=toptobottom myunittests.py

This is the extent of trial's ordering functionality though. You may be able to use py.test for some other kinds of ordering, but I have now clue how to do that.