Kill long running test

Hey there, I’m wondering if there is already a built in way or a recommended way to kill any tests that run longer than a particular arbitrary timeout. In my case I’m finding that certain tests are taking an unexpected amount of time to complete and can completely hang my CI environment.

For that reason I’d like to set a maxTestRunTimeout variable to 5 mins and kill any tests with an error if they go longer than that. Is there already a good way to do that? Would maxTestRunTimeout be something that you think should be added as a config option?

Thanks!

[tnrich]

Sounds good @jennifer-shehane , after some playing around it appears that this code should work:

//in support/index.js
let timeoutId
beforeEach(() => {
  timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
    throw new Error("Test taking tooooo long!")
  }, 60000 * 5); 
})
afterEach(() => {
  clearTimeout(timeoutId)
})
```js

[jennifer-shehane]

@tnrich There are many events that you can listen to from Cypress that may help you figure out how to workaround what you’re trying to do. https://on.cypress.io/catalog-of-events#Cypress-Events

I don’t think this would qualify as a bug in Cypress or a feature that we intend to add though, so I’m not sure this is the best place for this discussion.