Data().Scenario() ends immediately when populating DataTable with async data

What are you trying to achieve?

Data driven scenario that uses randomly generated test data from an asynchronous call to a third party (Mockaroo).

What do you get instead?

Data(…).Scenario(…) ends immediately.

> codeceptjs run --steps

CodeceptJS v1.3.2
Using test root "C:\path\to\repo"


  OK  | 0 passed   // 0ms
{ id: 1,
  FirstName: 'Graig',
  LastName: 'Wellfare',
  Email: '[e-mail]',
  Password: 'P@$$w0rd!',
  PhoneType: 'Work',
  PhoneNumber: '425-555-1212',
  EmailOptedIn: false,
  TextOptedIn: false,
  CreatedIn: 'dev-us',
  AddressLine1: '2 Valley Edge Pass',
  City: 'Long Beach',
  State: 'California',
  PostalCode: '90847',
  PetName: 'Arnoldo',
  Birthday: '01/21/1975',
  AdoptionDay: '09/30/2011',
  Species: 'dog',
  Gender: 'Male',
  SpayedNeutered: false,
  isAdopted: false,
  PrimaryBreed: 'Japanese Chin',
  isMixedBreed: true,
  Weight: 199,
  Color: 'Mahogany' }
PS C:\path\to\repo>

Provide test source code if related

/// <reference path="./steps.d.ts" />

var Mockaroo = require('mockaroo');

var accounts = new DataTable([
    'id',
    'FirstName',
    'LastName',
    'Email',
    'Password',
    'PhoneType',
    'PhoneNumber',
    'EmailOptedIn',
    'TextOptedIn',
    'CreatedIn',
    'AddressLine1',
    'AddressLine2',
    'City',
    'State',
    'PostalCode',
    'PetName',
    'Birthday',
    'AdoptionDay',
    'Species',
    'Gender',
    'SpayedNeutered',
    'isAdopted',
    'PrimaryBreed',
    'isMixedBreed',
    'Weight',
    'Color'
]);

var client = new Mockaroo.Client({
    apiKey: '1a96a8a0'
});

client.generate({
    count: 1,
    schema: 'my-saved-schema'
}).then(function(records) {
    console.log(records);

    for (var i = 0; i < records.length; i++) {
        accounts.add([
            records[i].id,
            records[i].FirstName,
            records[i].LastName,
            records[i].Email,
            records[i].Password,
            records[i].PhoneType,
            records[i].PhoneNumber,
            records[i].EmailOptedIn,
            records[i].TextOptedIn,
            records[i].CreatedIn,
            records[i].AddressLine1,
            records[i].AddressLine2,
            records[i].City,
            records[i].State,
            records[i].PostalCode,
            records[i].PetName,
            records[i].Birthday,
            records[i].AdoptionDay,
            records[i].Species,
            records[i].Gender,
            records[i].SpayedNeutered,
            records[i].isAdopted,
            records[i].PrimaryBreed,
            records[i].isMixedBreed,
            records[i].Weight,
            records[i].Color
        ]);
    }
});

function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        return setTimeout(resolve, ms);
    });
}

Feature('Account');

BeforeSuite(async(I) => {
    await sleep(5000);
});

// This ends immediately...
Data(accounts)
.Scenario('test something', (I,current) => {
// ... but comment out previous 2 lines and uncomment next line and delay works...
// Scenario('test something', (I) => {
    I.amOnPage('https://www.google.com');  // <-- starts after 5 seconds for Scenario() but not for Data().Scenario()
});

Details

• CodeceptJS version: “^1.3.2”
• NodeJS Version: v10.6.0
• Operating System:

Edition         Windows 10 Home
Version         1803
Installed on    5/17/2018
OS build        17134.165

• Configuration file:

{
  "name": "codeceptjs-mockaroo-test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "selenium-standalone install",
    "start": "selenium-standalone start",
    "test": ".\\node_modules\\.bin\\codeceptjs run --steps"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "Random QA Tester <[e-mail]>",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "codeceptjs": "^1.3.2",
    "mockaroo": "^0.1.7",
    "selenium-standalone": "^6.15.1"
  }
}

[guillaume86]

It’s a workaround for that specific use case for not a general solution for async data driven tests. Any news on this?

[Nuxij]

I am trying to do the same thing, I’d love to feed Data() using the DbHelper but I can’t seem to get it to handle async properly.