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in reply to Re: Organising Large Test Suites
in thread Organising Large Test Suites

Personally, I would have a way of uniquely identifying each test in your test suite.
I think it's better to assign the unique id to the bug/test-case because they tend to be more stable than the test suite (especially when you start refactoring).

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Re^3: Organising Large Test Suites
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jun 07, 2004 at 11:29 UTC
    If you give each test a unique identifer, you can also track which tests handle which requirements. I know this would be useful for other reasons.

    The ID should be something that is on the test-level without reference to which file or subsystem it deals with. Maybe, an order of creation? Then, the test suite is actually just a list of the individual test IDs that should be run?

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