How to run setup file before all tests about chimpy

[samhatoum]

Comment by Sanjo
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016 at 04:45 GMT

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Right now you can probably force a file to load first by prefixing the file name with __. E.g. __beforeAll.js. Because files are loaded in alphabetical order I think.

[samhatoum]

Comment by samhatoum
Thursday May 12, 2016 at 19:21 GMT

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@joshhunt did this work for you guys?

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Comment by joshhunt
Tuesday Jun 07, 2016 at 08:49 GMT

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Sorry for dropping off the grid - I'll check this out tomorrow and report back!

[samhatoum]

Comment by montogeek
Tuesday Aug 02, 2016 at 22:44 GMT

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@joshhunt are you back?

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Comment by tiagolr
Friday Mar 17, 2017 at 21:45 GMT

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I am using two different options for this:

1 - run code in chimp.config.js that executes in chimp process before tests start
2 - run code in this.BeforeFeatures(...) that executes in cucumber process before tests start

In your case the first option should work well, I'm using it too to setup global variables.

Here is a pasteBin of my config file:
http://pastebin.com/fXeVVTiW

edit: the configs contain a verification to prevent cucumber process from parsing the file, that has to do with the script and tests folder location.

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Comment by paulbjensen
Sunday Aug 13, 2017 at 07:19 GMT

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Hi,

I tried the suggestion that @sanjo made, and it works. I created a file named __beforeAll.test.js, and places it inside of the test/controllers folder in my app, as npm test script would load files from that directory first, e.g.

"script": {
  "test": "NODE_ENV=test mocha test/**/* test/*"
}

I needed to load the timekeeper npm module first to intercept the Date class in order to create a test relating to time, and so needed to load timekeeper before all of the application's code, as timekeeper mocks the Date class and Date.now function.

Thanks to @sanjo for the suggestion.