Running Risk Group Tests First

This section covers:

Reordering Risk Tests for JUnit and TestNG



Supported environments:

• Ant and IPR runners

• JUnit and TestNG frameworks when tests are started with usual JUnit or TestNG tasks

tip

TeamCity also allows to Risk Tests Reordering in Custom Test Runner.

You can instruct TeamCity to run some tests before others. You can do this on the build runner settings page. Currently there are two groups of tests that TeamCity can run first:

• recently failed tests, i.e. the tests failed in previous finished or running builds as well as tests having high failure rate (a so called blinking tests)

• new and modified tests, i.e. tests added or modified in changelists included in the running build

  note

  The recently added or modified tests in your Personal Build have the highest priority, and these tests run even before any other reordered test.

TeamCity allows you to enable both of these groups or each one separately.

Tests reordering works the following way:

1. TeamCity provides tests that should be run first (test classes).

2. When a JUnit task starts, TeamCity checks whether it includes these tests.

3. If at least one test is included, TeamCity generates a new fileset containing included tests only and processes it before all other filesets. It also patches other filesets to exclude tests added to the automatically generated fileset.

4. After that JUnit starts and runs as usual.

TeamCity operates on test case basis, that is not the individual tests are reordered, but the full test cases. The tests cases are reordered only within a single test execution Ant task, so to maximize the feature effect, use a single test execution task per build.

testReorderingForNUnitReordering Risk Tests for NUnit



Supported build runners:

• NAnt, MSBuild, sln2003, sln2005, sln2008 build runners

• NUnit testing framework

Tests reordering only supports reordering of recently failed tests

If risk tests reordering option is enabled, the feature for NUnit test runner works in the following way:

1. NUnit runs tests from the "risk" group using test name filter.

2. NUnit runs all other tests using inverse filter.

   note

   • Since tests run twice, thus risk test fixtures Set Up and Tear Down will be performed twice.

   • Tests reordering feature applies to an NUnit task. That is, for NAnt and MSBuild runners, tests reordering feature will be initiated as many times as many NUnit tasks you have in your build script.