Protractor : Can I have two describe block in one spec file?

Question

describe('describe 1', function () {

  beforeEach(async () => {
    await browser.sleep(3000);
    await browser.navigate().to(URL);   
  });

  it('Edit Client', async () => {
    await browser.wait(until.presenceOf(SpadesPageObj.ClientEdit), 50000, 'Client Edit');
    await SpadesPageObj.ClientEdit.click();
  });

})

describe('describe 2', function () {

  beforeEach(async () => {
    await browser.sleep(3000);
    await browser.navigate().to(URL);

  })
    it('Edit Client', async () => {
    await browser.wait(until.presenceOf(SpadesPageObj.ClientEdit), 50000, 'Client Edit');
    await SpadesPageObj.ClientEdit.click();
  });

})

Is the above code correct? Can I have two describe block in one spec file? My problem is I do not want to run beforeEach for all the IT blocks so I created a two describe, Is there any workaround in which I can skip beforeEach for some of the test cases?

I tried to run the above code and the only 1st describe runs and it skips the 2nd describe.

it worked for me too add your cofig fiel and console out put where you see only one describe ran7 — PDHide, Dec 03 '20 at 13:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 12:52

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yes you can do that. and you can also do nested describes (one inside another) https://stackoverflow.com/a/50802275/9150146

answered Dec 01 '20 at 12:52

Sergey Pleshakov

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Thanks for the answer but I am not looking for this. I want to know that -- **Is there any workaround in which I can skip beforeEach for some of the test cases?** or **Can I use two describe block in one spec file ?** – Aakash paliwal Dec 02 '20 at 09:14
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this is why my answer to you second question in the comment (or your overall post's header) was `yes you can do that` – Sergey Pleshakov Dec 02 '20 at 13:30
I tried to run the code and only 1st describe runs and it skips the 2nd describe. – Aakash paliwal Dec 02 '20 at 14:07
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that weird. it most certainly works. I just double checked it locally. What's your console output? any errors? – Sergey Pleshakov Dec 02 '20 at 14:26
`await browser.navigate().to(URL);` command doesn't exist as far as I know. Use `browser.get()` – Sergey Pleshakov Dec 02 '20 at 14:26
No errors - It only executes the first describe! – Aakash paliwal Dec 02 '20 at 15:24
as I mentioned, update you code to use browser.get – Sergey Pleshakov Dec 02 '20 at 15:47
@sergrey -- I am not getting any error due to .navigate().to(URL) my code works fine!! – Aakash paliwal Dec 03 '20 at 07:05
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here is what you can do, remove all protractor commands and paste console.log instead. If it works, that would mean you can have multiple describes, and that something is wrong with the code. Or otherwise – Sergey Pleshakov Dec 03 '20 at 13:24
sure will try it – Aakash paliwal Dec 03 '20 at 14:06

Protractor : Can I have two describe block in one spec file?

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