How to run test methods in order with Junit

Question

I am using JUnit and Selenium Webdriver. I want to run my test methods in order as how I write them in my code, as below:

@Test
public void registerUserTest(){
    // code
}

@Test
public void welcomeNewUserTest(){
    // code
}

@Test
public void questionaireNewUserTest(){
    // code
}

But it doesn't work, it always executes my test methods in this order:

welcomeNewUserTest()
registerUserTest()
questionaireNewUserTest()

I read an answer somewhere if I name my method with suffix Test, then JUnit would execute them in order as how I order them in code. Apparently, this doesn't work.

Any help? Thanks

Answer 1

So for tests like these - where the steps are dependent on each other - you should really execute them as one unit. You should really be doing something like:

@Test
public void registerWelcomeAndQuestionnaireUserTest(){
    // code
    // Register
    // Welcome
    // Questionnaire
}

As @Jeremiah mentions below, there are a handful of unique ways that separate tests can execute unpredictably.

Now that I've said that, here's your solution.

If you want separate tests, you can use @FixMethodOrder and then do it by NAME_ASCENDING. This is the only way I know.

@FixMethodOrder(MethodSorters.NAME_ASCENDING)
public class TestMethodOrder {

    @Test
    public void testA() {
        System.out.println("first");
    }
    @Test
    public void testC() {
        System.out.println("third");
    }
    @Test
    public void testB() {
        System.out.println("second");
    }
}

will execute:

testA(), testB(), testC()

In your case:

@FixMethodOrder(MethodSorters.NAME_ASCENDING)
public class ThisTestsEverything{

    @Test
    public void T1_registerUser(){
        // code
    }

    @Test
    public void T2_welcomeNewUser(){
        // code
    }

    @Test
    public void T3_questionaireNewUser(){
        // code
    }

}