Symfony2 - Execution order of test cases

Question

I'm using Symfony Functional Tests in NETBEANS. Is it possible to define the order in which order will the test cases be executed?

For example: I have "UserTestCase" case for testing registration of users, changing their profiles etc, and "ForumTestCase" for testing creation of forum posts etc. I want to run UserTestCase before ForumTestCase. Now the order is according to file names (F.. before U..)

Answer 1

I'm using Netbeans for the development and I was wondering for a long time, why this didn't work for me.

Then I found out, that Netbeans simply ignores folder definitions and the order of execution defined in phpunit.xml

See here: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199072

Answer 2

You need to define order of tests in your phpunit.xml as described in docs

example:

<phpunit>
  <testsuites>
    <testsuite name="Object_Freezer">
      <file>Tests/Freezer/HashGenerator/NonRecursiveSHA1Test.php</file>
      <file>Tests/Freezer/IdGenerator/UUIDTest.php</file>
      <file>Tests/Freezer/UtilTest.php</file>
      <file>Tests/FreezerTest.php</file>
      <file>Tests/Freezer/StorageTest.php</file>
      <file>Tests/Freezer/Storage/CouchDB/WithLazyLoadTest.php</file>
      <file>Tests/Freezer/Storage/CouchDB/WithoutLazyLoadTest.php</file>
    </testsuite>
  </testsuites>
</phpunit>