MethodSorters (JUnit API)
Date: 2018-08-04

org.junit.runners

## Enum MethodSorters

- java.lang.Object
- - java.lang.Enum<MethodSorters>
  - - org.junit.runners.MethodSorters

- All Implemented Interfaces:
    java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Comparable<MethodSorters>

      public enum MethodSorters
      extends java.lang.Enum<MethodSorters>

  Sort the methods into a specified execution order. Defines common `MethodSorter` implementations.
  Since:
    4.11

- - ### Enum Constant Summary

    Enum Constants
    Enum Constant and Description
    `DEFAULT` Sorts the test methods in a deterministic, but not predictable, order
    `JVM` Leaves the test methods in the order returned by the JVM.
    `NAME_ASCENDING` Sorts the test methods by the method name, in lexicographic order, with `Method.toString()` used as a tiebreaker

  - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `java.util.Comparator<java.lang.reflect.Method>` | `getComparator()`
    `static MethodSorters` | `valueOf(java.lang.String name)` Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
    `static MethodSorters[]` | `values()` Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

    - ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

      `clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf`

    - ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

      `getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

- - ### Enum Constant Detail

    - #### NAME_ASCENDING

          public static final MethodSorters NAME_ASCENDING

      Sorts the test methods by the method name, in lexicographic order, with `Method.toString()` used as a tiebreaker

    - #### JVM

          public static final MethodSorters JVM

      Leaves the test methods in the order returned by the JVM. Note that the order from the JVM may vary from run to run

    - #### DEFAULT

          public static final MethodSorters DEFAULT

      Sorts the test methods in a deterministic, but not predictable, order

  - ### Method Detail

    - #### values

          public static MethodSorters[] values()

      Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

          for (MethodSorters c : MethodSorters.values())
              System.out.println(c);

      Returns:
        an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

    - #### valueOf

          public static MethodSorters valueOf(java.lang.String name)

      Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)
      Parameters:
        `name` - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
      Returns:
        the enum constant with the specified name
      Throws:
        `java.lang.IllegalArgumentException` - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name
        `java.lang.NullPointerException` - if the argument is null

    - #### getComparator

          public java.util.Comparator<java.lang.reflect.Method> getComparator()