jest provides afterEach, beforeEach, afterAll and beforeAll to complete setup and teardown logic. What I would like to do, is to clear up after one particular test. Consider the following:
describe("a family of tests it makes sense to group together", () => {
...
test("something I want to test", () => {
// some setup needed for just this test
global.foo = "bar"
// the test
expect(myTest()).toBe(true)
// clear up
delete global.foo
}
...
}
The problem with the above...
If the test above fails for some reason, then delete global.foo is never run. This means that potentially all of the tests following it will fail. Rather than seeing 1 test fail, I see a whole load of tests fail, which could be confusing.
Potential (non-ideal) solutions
One solution is just to add delete global.foo into my afterEach. It doesn't really need to be run after every test, but it doesn't do any harm either. Another solution would be to put the particular test by itself so that afterEach would only apply to it. But this doesn't seem ideal either - if that test belongs with other tests, it aught to be possible for it to remain with them.
My question:
Is there a way to run teardown logic for just a specific test (without running it inside the actual test). In my particular use-case the first outlined solution is fine, but I can imagine there might be situations where finer grained control is needed. If my teardown method took a long time for example I wouldn't want to repeat it lots, as this would slow down the whole test-suite.
