Mocha: bail on one specific describe only

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I use mocha/chai to test my graphql endpoints for a nodejs/express server - which works fine. However, in the first test, I check if any .env variables have been set correctly. If not, all further tests will be affected anyways. So I would like to terminate all further tests when any test in this block fails (preferably finishing the block to capture all 'missing' variables).

So can I somehow terminate the entire test, when a certain describe-block fails?

Note: I found the bail flag/config option, but this determines the whole test on any error, which is not what I'm looking for.

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You can try add after hook and add a condition there

after('Fail for some describe', function () {
            if(this.test.parent.title.startsWith('Describe title that should fail') && this.test.parent.isFailed())
                this.test.parent._bail = true
        });

This could be tricky since this context may contain several layers of parents so if not sure you can always log the keys for current this.test object. Also, bear in mind that the following describe might have different this context with overriden _bail value. This solution is good when it comes to tracking specific critical it failures.

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