beforeAll() executed in parallel with test case in case of timeout

🐛 Bug Report

Test case is executed even if beforeAll did not finish.

To Reproduce

This test file:

beforeAll(async () => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
  // Never resolves
}));

test('test case', async () => {
  console.log('should never be executed');
});

Displays this:

% npx jest t.spec.js
 FAIL  ./t.spec.js (5.415s)
  ✕ test case (8ms)

  ● test case

    Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 5000ms timeout specified by jes
t.setTimeout.Error: Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 5000ms timeout 
specified by jest.setTimeout.

      at mapper (node_modules/jest-jasmine2/build/queueRunner.js:25:45)

  console.log t.spec.js:6
    should never be executed

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests:       1 failed, 1 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        5.436s, estimated 6s
Ran all test suites matching /t.spec.js/i.

Expected behavior

Test case code should never be executed because beforeAll() did not finish. The error message should be at the beforeAll level and not at the test case level. This is very confusing as you may think that the test case itself failed when in reality it has nothing to do with the test case.

Link to repl or repo (highly encouraged)

https://repl.it/repls/KindlyAutomaticLocation

envinfo

% npx envinfo --preset jest
npx: installed 1 in 0.645s

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.3 Manjaro Linux
    CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 13.7.0 - /usr/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.21.1 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.13.6 - /usr/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^24.9.0 => 24.9.0 

[wanton7]

Our company lost 4 man-days of development because of this bug. Please fix this so others don’t suffer the same fate. Return proper error for this and don’t run test if beforeAll etc timeouts. So they know that they need to put bigger timeout as second argument for beforeAll and afterAll etc.

[mateuspiresl]

I’m facing this issue. Agree with @albert-schilling. There is no point in testing being run before preparation (beforeAll and beforeEach) is complete.