diff --git a/doc/guides/writing-tests.md b/doc/guides/writing-tests.md
index 126122a7b3589b..21ae1022a3c769 100644
--- a/doc/guides/writing-tests.md
+++ b/doc/guides/writing-tests.md
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ These modules are required for the test to run. Except for special cases, these
 modules should only include core modules.
 The `assert` module is used by most of the tests to check that the assumptions
 for the test are met.
+Note that require statements are sorted, in
+[ASCII](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ascii.7.html) order (digits, upper
+case, `_`, lower case).
 
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