Option to enable fail-fast only in specific tests or describes

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

there is a certain percentage where we write test independent of other tests, and dependent of other tests. At the time of writing this request, this plugin fails fast when a test fails in a test file.

Describe the solution you’d like

This request is to only fail on dependent test(s). So some kind of configuration to say fail fast in this describe if we want to, but don’t fail fast on other test files when a failure occurred.

[MuckT]

@javierbrea I would find this incredibly useful. I’ve set-up some e2e tests for my project that walk through a process and if test 2 fails there’s no point in running the remaining it blocks. Then I have other tests where I would like all the tests to run regardless of a fail in the spec.

[javierbrea]

Hi @chuckadams,

I think that your scenario could be solved with the options I am thinking to implement for this issue (the #33 one is related to fail-fast parallel executions in CI).

Once implemented, each describe or it would accept next options object:

{
  failFast: {
    enabled: true //false
  }
}

So, you could achieve what you are describing as:

describe("All tests", {
  failFast: {
    enabled: false, // Next tests and describes will inherit this value
  },
}, () => {
  it("sanity test", {
    failFast: {
      enabled: true, // Overwrite previously defined options
    },
  }, () => {
    // Will skip the rest of tests if this one fails
    expect(true).to.be.true;
  });

  it("second test",() => {
    // Will continue if this one fails, as it inherits the options in the parent `describe`
    expect(true).to.be.true;
  });

  it("third test",() => {
    // Will continue if this one fails, as it inherits the options in the parent `describe`
    expect(true).to.be.true;
  });
});

Thanks for your feedback! 🙂