How can I have a beforeAll function in Jasmine ? (Not coffeeScript)

Question

I need to know if there is a way to include or use a beforeAll function, or something similar, so I can login to my application and then start testing.

Right now I\'m pu

Answer 1

please use below code and configure your setting in beforeAll statement.

describe("Top", function() {
     beforeAll(function() { 
            console.log("Example 1 Setup"); 
     });
     it('xyz',function(){
        console.log('Hi!')
     });
});

Answer 2

You can add this package that adds a beforeAll() and afterAll() to Jasmine.

https://github.com/nonplus/jasmine-beforeAll

Answer 3

This is now much easier. As of Jasmine 2.1 (released 14 Nov 2014), there is a beforeAll function built into the framework.

Here are the release notes with everything that was added in 2.1. And here is the documentation explaining beforeAll and afterAll

Answer 4

You can nest as many describe functions as you want. So you can do something like...

describe("General Test", function () {

    function login(){
        //This code will run once at he beginning of your script
    };

    login();

    beforeEach(function () {
        //anything in here will apply to everything in each nested describe
    });

    describe("Specific Test", function () {
        //Applied here
    });

    describe("Another Specific Test", function () {
        //And here
    });


});