Difference between setting "defaultTimeoutInterval: 2500000" in config file AND setTimeout function in 'beforeEach' with callbacks to done in its

[Suswari Reddy]

Hi,

I am actually confused and wanted to know the how jasmine works with two scenarios as below.

This all raised as I was experiencing an Error: Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within timeout specified by jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL

scenario 1) 

To solve the above error I tried adding setTimeout function to beforeEach like:

beforeEach(function(done) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        value = 0;
        done();
    }, 6000);

}) 

it('User creates a new SAP', function (done) {
    value++;
    expect(value).toBeGreaterThan(0);
    //some code

    //some code
    //some code
    done();
});

And the error was not resolved.

scenario 2).

Instead I added to my config file like:

jasmineNodeOpts : {
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 2500000
},

which resolved the error.


So my question is, how jasmine considers both the scenarios and why did not scenario 1 work?

[Tony Brix]

https://jasmine.github.io/2.5/introduction.html#section-Asynchronous_Support

by default defaultTimeoutInterval is set to 5000 so if an async operation takes longer than 5 seconds jasmine will throw that error.

setting defaultTimeoutInterval to 2500000 tells jasmine to wait about 42 minutes for the async operation to finish