pauseTest() does not work as expected

Currently the pauseTest() helper doesn’t work properly with mocha due to its test timeouts. If you call this.timeout(0); before using pauseTest() it will work, but obviously it would be better if this could be done automatically.

Is it possible for us to overwrite the original pauseTest() helper and add one that first calls this.timeout(0) and the original code afterwards?

[Turbo87]

This has been solved with the new testing API released in v0.14.0

[alexlafroscia]

I’ve been playing around with this some, and have had trouble overriding the existing pauseTest helper to set the timeout. However, introducing a new helper works.

What I did to override the existing helper was adding this to the test-helper.js for a demo app:

import { before } from 'mocha';

before(function() {
  const originalPauseTestHelper = Ember.Test._helpers.pauseTest.method;

  Ember.Test.registerAsyncHelper('pauseTest', () => {
    this.timeout(0);

    return originalPauseTestHelper();
  });
});

My hope was that setting the timeout in here would override the default value of 2000 and cause the test now to fail. However, this doesn’t work; I’m guessing that’s the case because the context (this) of the before hook needs to be set up before the it callback is called, but in this case we’re setting it after the test has already started.

What did work was setting up a new helper, like this:

import { before } from 'mocha';

before(function() {
  const originalPauseTestHelper = Ember.Test._helpers.pauseTest.method;

  Ember.Test.registerAsyncHelper('pauseMochaTest', (app, context) => {
    context.timeout(0);

    return originalPauseTestHelper();
  });
});

In this case, the tests passes the context into the helper, like:

pauseMochaTest(this);

So now it can set the timeout correctly, because it’s accessing the context of the it callback instead of the context of the before.

I’ve tried to see if there’s some way to access the it context from the before but it doesn’t seem possible. How do you feel about “solving” this with a new helper?