How to set timeout for #mocha async tests?

You can check out the following ways to set mocha test timeout if you want to increase or decrease the duration before your mocha tests timeout.

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1)

it('test long async', (done) => {

  this.timeout(500);

  blogService.checkBlog()

    .then((response) => {

      assert.isObject(response);

    ...

      done();

    })

    .catch((err) => {

      done(err);

    });

});

2)

it('test long async', (done) => {

  setTimeout(done, 300);

  blogService.checkBlog()

    .then((response) => {

      assert.isObject(response);

    ...

      done();

    })

    .catch((err) => {

      done(err);

    });

});

3) If you use async and await

it(’test long async', async () => {

  // this.timeout(15000); // not gonna work

  const response = await blogService.checkBlog();

  ...

}).timeout('15s');

4) Using timeout flag: --timeout / -t to set timeout for all your test suites.

mocha ./tests/*.js --timeout 3s

5) If you need some async setup before running any of your test suites, you can add a delay flag to your mocha test command and write your mocha tests as following. Check out Mocha Delayed Root Suite document.

mocha ./tests/*.js --delay 3s

setTimeout(function() {

  // setup

  describe('blogService', function() {

    // ...

  });

  run();

}, 5000);

Thank you for reading!

Jun