I know I could throw an error from inside the test, but I wonder if there is something like the global fail()
method provided by Jasmine?
Add jest-fail-on-console npm package, then on your jest.config.js This will fail a test once there is a console error or warning done by jest because of an error or warning thrown in the test item. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
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Jest actually uses Jasmine, so you can use fail
just like before.
Sample call:
fail('it should not reach here');
Here's the definition from the TypeScript declaration file for Jest:
declare function fail(error?: any): never;
You can do it by throwing an error. For example:
test('Obi-Wan Kenobi', () => { throw new Error('I have failed you, Anakin') })
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