First of all, the below code seems to work. However, I have not yet seen anyone do this so I am wondering if this is even legitimate and if I am missing unforeseen downsides.
The context is that I am writing an E2E test with Protractor which uses Jasmine-style describe/it blocks. My goal is to load a page and run a bunch of it tests blocks without reloading that page each time (because its time consuming).
The construct I have is:
describe(Homepage, function () {
beforeEach(function () {
browser.get(/); //loads the page
});
it('elements', function () {
describe('test group', function () {
it('test 1', function () {
//run stuff 1
});
it('test2', function () {
//run stuff 2
});
})
});
});
I realize an alternative is just to do this:
describe(Homepage, function () {
beforeEach(function () {
browser.get(/); //goes to homepage
});
it('elements', function () {
//run stuff 1
//run stuff 2
});
});
But the issue is that I can't separate the tests and you end up with a big it block. I want to somehow avoid the issue of running beforeEach every single time but still be able to have a nicely separated set test blocks.
By the way, I have also tried this:
describe(Homepage, function () {
browser.get(/); //goes to homepage
it('elements', function () {
//run stuff 1
//run stuff 2
});
});
except this doesn't work when you have multiple specs like this. The browser.get() all run one after the other before the tests get run.
