Jest stop test suite after first fail

Question

I am using Jest for testing.

What I want, is to stop executing the current test suite when a test in that test suite fails.

The option --bail is not what I need, since it stop other test suites after one test suite fails.

Answer 1

I guess that other tests in that suite depend on all previous tests be successful. This is a bad practice in unit testing. Try using beforeEach and afterEach to decouple individual test cases within a suite, so that they don't rely on each other.

Answer 2

I've made some kludge but it works for me.

stopOnFirstFailed.js:

/**
 * This is a realisation of "stop on first failed" with Jest
 * @type {{globalFailure: boolean}}
 */

module.exports = {
    globalFailure: false
};

// Injects to jasmine.Spec for checking "status === failed"
!function (OriginalSpec) {
    function PatchedSpec(attrs) {
        OriginalSpec.apply(this, arguments);

        if (attrs && attrs.id) {
            let status = undefined;
            Object.defineProperty(this.result, 'status', {
                get: function () {
                    return status;
                },
                set: function (newValue) {
                    if (newValue === 'failed') module.exports.globalFailure = true;
                    status = newValue;
                },
            })
        }
    }

    PatchedSpec.prototype = Object.create(OriginalSpec.prototype, {
        constructor: {
            value: PatchedSpec,
            enumerable: false,
            writable: true,
            configurable: true
        }
    });

    jasmine.Spec = PatchedSpec;
}(jasmine.Spec);

// Injects to "test" function for disabling that tasks
test = ((testOrig) => function () {
    let fn = arguments[1];

    arguments[1] = () => {
        return module.exports.globalFailure ? new Promise((res, rej) => rej('globalFailure is TRUE')) : fn();
    };

    testOrig.apply(this, arguments);
})(test);

Imports that file before all tests (before first test(...)), for ex my index.test.js:

require('./core/stopOnFirstFailed'); // before all tests

test(..., ()=>...);
...

That code marks all next tests failed with label globalFailure is TRUE when first error happens.

If you want to exclude failing, for ex. some cleanup tests you can do like this:

const stopOnFirstFailed = require('../core/stopOnFirstFailed');

describe('some protected group', () => {
    beforeAll(() => {
        stopOnFirstFailed.globalFailure = false
    });
    test(..., ()=>...);
    ...

It excludes whole group from failing.

Tested with Node 8.9.1 and Jest 23.6.0