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 putting my login operations in the first test case ( it ). Which is not a good practice.

If there is a better way to store my login code other then using a beforeAll function please tell me about it.

I'm using pure Jasmine not related to any other framework like coffee-script or others.

Thank you

Answer 1

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 2

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     });   });