Re: Tearing down when SetUp fails?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Charlie Poole
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kelly,
>
>> Ok Charlie, I totally understand the SetUp TearDown thing in
>> the inheritance model. That makes sense, because it's just
>> like constructors and destructors (at least in C++, let's not
>> get into the weird end of life of C# objects) and the order
>> they are executed makes sense because of that prior
>> experience. I think I've done this myself, in fact. It was useful.
>
> I undersand what you mean. And it's a fairly natural way to think
> as well - which is why folks asked for it.

Agreed.

>> That being said, if you have two SetUps in the same class, I
>> would assume they are all executed prior to calling each
>> test. But how do you know which one is executed first? Or
>> must the order of execution not matter to be safe?
>
> My answer is that it must not matter. This will, of course,
> need to be documented.

Would be a good thing to stick in the NUnit Wiki... if there is one.

-Kelly

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