beforeEach and AfterEach for every test case using Globals.js

Question

So, I have a globals.js file where I have mentioned beforeEach and afterEach, but what I could understand from this link Nightwatch Globals, the beforeEach and afterEach are called once before and after a Test Suite (A single Js file). But in my framework I have multiple test cases in the a single js file (or Test Suite) and I want to call beforeEach and afterEach before and after every test case. Anyway to achieve that? Below is my globals.js file:

module.exports = {
    asyncHookTimeout: 40000,

    beforeEach: function (browser, done) {
        // browser.maximizeWindow();
        // browser.deleteCookies();
        browser.perform(function () {
            console.log('Inside BeforeEach');
            done();
        });
    }

    afterEach: function (browser, done) {
        browser.end(function () {
            console.log("Inside After Each");
            done();
        });
    },
};

Answer 1

Of course there is! Just make use of the notorious Nightwatch test hooks.

• If you want to filter your test-suites, then as you pointed out, we'll use the global test hooks.
• If you want to filter your test-cases, then we'll use the test hooks

Example (your test-file should look like this):

module.exports = {

  before(browser) {
    // > this will get run only ONCE, before all the tests <
  },
  beforeEach(browser) {
    // > this will get run before every test case <
  }

  tags: ['your', 'tags', 'go', 'here'],
  'Test Case No.1': (browser) => {
     // > this test does something here <
  },
  'Test Case No.2': (browser) => {
     // > this test does something else here <
  },
  'Test Case No.3': (browser) => {
     // > this test does something else here <
  },

  afterEach(browser) {
    // > this will get run after every test case <
  },
  after(browser) {
    // > this will get run ONCE, after all tests have run <
  }
};

Lastly, quoting the DOCs:

The before and after will run before and after the execution of the test suite respectively (in our case, the test-file), while beforeEach and afterEach are ran before and after each test case (test step).

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LE: What @AlapanDas wants is to custom-tailor the way the Nightwatch test-runner handles test-level hooks. This is of course doable, but dirty. You have to re-write the hooking logic from the following files:

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• testcase.js (path: /nightwatch/lib/runner/testcase.js);
• testsuite.js (path: /nightwatch/lib/runner/testsuite.js);

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• every {hookName}.js file from the /hooks folder (path: /nightwatch/lib/testsuite/hooks/*.js);

Still, a compromise can be made here! Just try to find the common, recurring steps/instructions from your before, after, etc. hooks and extract that logic inside a /custom_commands file. That would condense your test files, as well as decoupling the login from your hooks. On the long run, this will also grant the advantage of a single-point-of-change when maintaining the hooks.