Jasmine/Protractor: stop test on failure in beforeEach

Question

I am currently writing tests protractor and I was wondering if there is some possibility to cancel test execution as soon as something in the beforeEach fails (and return some u

Answer 1

Strictly answering your question and without external dependencies:

beforeEach(function() {
    // 1) login user
    expect(1).toBe(1);
    // This works on Jasmine 1.3.1
    if (this.results_.failedCount > 0) {
        // Hack: Quit by filtering upcoming tests
        this.env.specFilter = function(spec) {
            return false;
        };
    } else {
        // 2) set some user properties
        expect(2).toBe(2);
    }
});

it('does your thing (always runs, even on prior failure)', function() {
    // Below conditional only necessary in this first it() block
    if (this.results_.failedCount === 0) {
        expect(3).toBe(3);
    }
});

it('does more things (does not run on prior failure)', function() {
    expect(4).toBe(4);
});

So if 1 fails, 2,3,4,N won't run as you expect.

There is also jasmine-bail-fast but I'm not sure how it will behave in your before each scenario.