diff --git a/news/2 Fixes/16882.md b/news/2 Fixes/16882.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8ba3c1178b3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/2 Fixes/16882.md	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix the order of default unittest arguments.
+(thanks [Nikolay Kondratyev](https://github.com/kondratyev-nv/))
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5028bbf93893..5f0fa5eb0d34 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1216,11 +1216,11 @@
                 },
                 "python.testing.unittestArgs": {
                     "default": [
-                        "*test*.py",
-                        "-p",
-                        "-s",
                         "-v",
-                        "."
+                        "-s",
+                        ".",
+                        "-p",
+                        "*test*.py"
                     ],
                     "description": "Arguments passed in. Each argument is a separate item in the array.",
                     "items": {