Template code for running test cases in order using the python unit testing framwork

unit_test_case_ordered.py

import unittest 

# User defined funtion to compare method names when sorting them in order 
# to be executed in the unit test.

def unit_test_order():
  order = {}
  def ordered(f):
    order[f.__name__] = len(order)
    return f
  def compare(a, b):
    return [1, -1][order[a] < order[b]]
   return ordered, compare

ordered, compare = unit_test_order()
unittest.defaultTestLoader.sortTestMethodsUsing = compare

# Base class for test case to be executed in order.

class SortMethodsTemplate(
  unittest.TestCase
)

  # Runs first test case 
  @ordered 
  def test_run_first(
    self 
  ):
  ...
  
  # Runs second second test case
  @ordered
  def test_run_second(
    self
  ):
  ...
  
if __name__ = '__main__':
  unittest.main(
    verbosity=2
)