Is it bad form to count on the order of your NUnit unit tests

Question

I have been creating Unit tests like crazy and find that I\'m often having to set up something in one test that I just tore down in a previous test. Is it ever reasonable to cr

Answer 1

Unit tests are intended to stand alone, not be run as a sequential script. If you actually need them run sequentially, collect them into a single test function.

If your unit tests suffer from expensive set-up, you may be doing integration testing when you think you're doing unit testing. If you're hitting a SQL database inside most of your unit tests, you're actually integration testing with your data access layer.