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Jest: When Failing Fast is the Smart Strategy

Jest: When Failing Fast is the Smart Strategy

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When working on large projects, it’s common to have test suites that can take several minutes to run. And when one of those tests fails early in the execution, it’s frustrating to wait for all the others to complete just to see the full results.

Jest includes a feature I’ve found very useful in development: the bail option, which allows stopping test execution after a certain number of failures. It’s one of those features that once you know and start using, you don’t understand how you lived without it.