Jest fails with 'Cannot find module' when restricted to a single suite but succeeds when testing multiple suites

Question

I have a typescript project containing multiple Jest test suites. If I run all of the suites together using

npm test

then all the tests are executed.

I can filter the tests that run by using a command like

npm test -- LayoutView

Jest then only executes the tests from modules whose names contain the text LayoutView. We get a response

> jest --config=./configs/jest.config.ts "LayoutView"

 PASS  tests/actions/LayoutViewHide.test.ts
 PASS  tests/actions/LayoutViewCopy.test.ts
 PASS  tests/actions/LayoutViewMove.test.ts

Test Suites: 3 passed, 3 total
Tests:       47 passed, 47 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        6.724 s
Ran all test suites matching /LayoutView/i

However if I further restrict the pattern so that it only matches a single test file like this then it fails.

npm test -- LayoutViewH

giving an error like this:

> jest --config=./configs/jest.config.ts "LayoutViewH"

 FAIL  tests/actions/LayoutViewHide.test.ts
  ● Test suite failed to run

    Cannot find module 'source-map-support' from 'node_modules/@cspotcode/source-map-support/source-map-support.js'

      at Resolver.resolveModule (node_modules/jest-resolve/build/index.js:306:11)

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests:       0 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        0.095 s, estimated 5 s
Ran all test suites matching /LayoutViewH/i.

It seems that whenever I try to test from a single suite it fails, whenever the test covers multiple files then it succeeds. This is preventing me from debugging a failed test, since VSCode is trying to run a single test, and fails with the same error message I can see in the command line.

Looking at Jest - Cannot find module 'source-map' from 'source-map-support.js' I checked the moduleDirectories property in my jest.config.ts file. It reads

moduleDirectories: ['node_modules', 'src'],

I need to have 'src' here since I am using absolute paths within my code, relative to a directory called src below my root directory.

Besides if I have the includes miss-configured, why does it work when testing several suites at once? Any idea what might be causing this?

I am running:

• node --version: v16.15.1
• Jest version: 26.6.3

My jest.configure.ts file reads

module.exports = {
    rootDir: '../',
    roots: [ '<rootDir>/tests/' ],
    transform: {
        '.+\\.(css|less|sass|scss|svg|png|jpg|ttf|woff|woff2)$': 'jest-transform-stub',
        '^.+\\.tsx?$': 'ts-jest',
        '^.+\\.js$': '<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest'
    },
    testRegex: '\\.test\\.(ts|tsx|js)$',
    moduleFileExtensions: ['ts', 'tsx', 'js'],
    moduleDirectories: ['node_modules', 'src'],
    testEnvironment: 'node',
};

The relevant part of the "package.json" file contains

{
   "scripts": {
      "test": "jest --config=./configs/jest.config.ts"
   }
}