Public API for start/end of all tests run

Not sure this is a documentation issue, but the feature does exist in Cypress. There’s a need for listening to an event that fires when tests start running. I see 3 cases where this can happen when running cypress open:

1. Launch browser
2. Click on “run all tests” button
3. Reload the browser tab

When running cypress run this should happen only once, of course.

From inspecting the events that Cypress emits, I see run:start and run:end answer exactly this need. So the question is, can these be used as a public API for this hook? If so, I was right to think it’s a documentation issue.

[jennifer-shehane]

Hey @amitzur, we agree. In fact the work for adding this hook has mostly been done and will be part of a future release. You can see those changes in these doc updates here: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-documentation/issues/890

[jennifer-shehane]

@gilgold This issue is about documentation, not the Cypress product itself. See this issue for any actual events feature: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/2840

I’m going to close this documentation issue - as the behavior of before and `after has been documented correctly now. The rest of the comments seem related to actually wanting new features in Cypress covered in https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/2840