Can group initialization be asynchronous?

In my test case, I want to create multiple instances of a model in a database. And run a separate test for each:

test.group('Status code must mee 2xx or 3xx', async (group) => {
  let links = await ShortLinkFactory.createMany(50)

  links.forEach(link => {
    test(link.id, async (assert) => {
      await supertest(link.url)
        .get('/')
        .expect((res) => {
          assert.isAbove(res.statusCode, 200)
          assert.isBelow(res.statusCode, 400)
        })
    })
  })
})

Of course I can do everything in one test, but then I do not get a beautiful and convenient log that conveniently displays which links returned the expected result and which failed

[thetutlage]

The groups cannot be asynchronous right now. Once, we all move to ESM + top level await, then this is will possible automatically without changing anything in Japa.

However, what you are trying to do is a better fit for datasets. Datasets are coming in the next version. Following is an example code for the same.

test('some title', ({ assert }, link) => {
  
})
.with(() => ShortLinkFactory.createMany(50))

The above test will run for 50 times.

[thetutlage]

The newer version has datasets for this exact use case. Here are the docs https://japa.dev/datasets

Closing it for now.