Greetings brothers.

I am currently writing a test suite for a DBIx::Class based project using Test::Class. I am having trouble with the order that Test::Class calls the startup methods I have defined.

package Test::Setup;
use base 'Test::Class';
use Test::Most;    # Pulls in strict, warnings, T::More, T::Exception 
+etc.

use Schema;            # The base of my DBIx::Class classes.

sub db_connect : Test(startup)
{
  my $self = shift;
  my $schema = Schema->connect('dbi:SQLite:dbname=:memory:');
  $schema->deploy();
  $self->{'schema'} = $schema;
};

package Test::Schema::Result::Organisation;
use base 'Test::Setup';
use Test::Most;

# This does not work!
# I expected it to get called after the parent class startup method, b
+ut instead it gets called first,
# before the startup method in Test::Setup so there is no DB connectio
+n and the schema is not defined.
#
# Test::Schema::Result::Organisation::create_organisation
sub create_organisation : Test(startup)
{
  my $self = shift;
  my $schema = $self->{'schema'};
    
  $self->{'Organisation'} = $schema->resultset('Organisation')->create
+({
    'name'         =>  'BigCheeseIndustries',
    'description'  =>  'Test Organisation for the test suite',
  });
  return;
};

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In the example above, the create_organisation method gets called before the db_connect method that it depends on. I had expected Test::Class to respect the inheritance order of my test classes, and call the parent startup methods before the children, but that does not appear to be the case.

I have read in the Test::Class docs, that startup methods are run in alphabetical order, and I am able to fix the order by prefixing the method names with A_, B_ etc, but this feels like a crude hack. Is there a smarter way?

In reply to Order of startup methods with Test::Class by chrestomanci

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