A Nose plugin to specify the order of unit test execution

Question

I have a desire to use Nose for an over the wire integration test suite. However, the order of execution of some of these tests is important.

That said, I thought I

Answer 1

From the documentation:

[...] nose runs functional tests in the order in which they appear in the module file. TestCase-derived tests and other test classes are run in alphabetical order.

So a simple solution might be to rename the tests in your test case:

class Foo(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_01_foo(self):
        pass

    def test_02_boo(self):
        pass