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diff --git a/Help/prop_test/FIXTURES_REQUIRED.rst b/Help/prop_test/FIXTURES_REQUIRED.rst index e37dfb5..e3f60c4 100644 --- a/Help/prop_test/FIXTURES_REQUIRED.rst +++ b/Help/prop_test/FIXTURES_REQUIRED.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FIXTURES_REQUIRED ----------------- Specifies a list of fixtures the test requires. Fixture names are case -sensitive. +sensitive and they are not required to have any similarity to test names. Fixtures are a way to attach setup and cleanup tasks to a set of tests. If a test requires a given fixture, then all tests marked as setup tasks for that @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ some setup tests fail. When CTest is asked to execute only a subset of tests (e.g. by the use of regular expressions or when run with the ``--rerun-failed`` command line option), it will automatically add any setup or cleanup tests for fixtures -required by any of the tests that are in the execution set. +required by any of the tests that are in the execution set. This behavior can +be overridden with the ``-FS``, ``-FC`` and ``-FA`` command line options to +:manual:`ctest(1)` if desired. Since setup and cleanup tasks are also tests, they can have an ordering specified by the :prop_test:`DEPENDS` test property just like any other tests. |