Ability to skip rest test cases if one fails

🚀 Feature Proposal

Provide ability to skip rest test cases in a file or describe block if one test fails.

Motivation

For E2E testing, the test cases are usually written to be run sequentially, and a failed test should stop the rest from running.

Example

test('should login', async () => {});

test('should edit profile', async () => {});

test('should render profile', async () => {});

Or with describes:

describe('#1', () => {
  test('should login', async () => {});

  describe('#1.1', () => {
    test('should edit profile', async () => {});

    test('should render profile', async () => {});
  });
});

[MrLoh]

I created a PR that implements asynchronously canceling tests as described in #8604. With that in place, one could implement this functionality through easy monkey patching in user land like this:

let prevFailed;
const _describe = global.describe;
global.describe = (...args) => {
  prevFailed = false;
  return _describe(...args);
};
global.test.step = (name, fn, ...args) => {
  test(name, async function(...fnArgs) {
    if (prevFailed) {
      return this.skip();
    }
    try {
      return await fn(...fnArgs);
    } catch (e) {
      prevFailed = true;
      throw e;
    }
  }, ...args);
};

[MrLoh]

#9944 But I doubt it will ever be merged, I haven’t heard back a single word from any contributor.