supertest & mocha problems with integration tests

[Avcajaraville]

I am having a bad time trying to know what is going on here.

I'm setting some integration tests with mocha & supertest.

My problem is that the time showed on each "it" block is not reliable.

If I copy paste the same test, always, the first test takes like 5 times more. I know this must be something Im missing here, but can't understand why.

I know about require cache issue, but I don't think is related with my problem.

This is my test:

var express = require( 'express' );
var supertest = require( 'supertest' );
var should = require('should');


describe( 'dummy describe', function() {

  var app, request;

  beforeEach(function() {
    app = express();
    app.get( '/', function( req, res ) {
      res.send( 'hey' );
    });
    request = supertest(app)
      .get('/')
      .set('User-Agent', 'my cool browser')
      .set('Accept', 'text/plain');
  });


  it( 'should do a dummy test', function( done ) {
    request
      .end( function( err, res ) {
        res.status.should.equal( 200 );
        res.text.should.equal( 'hey' );
        done();
    });
  });

  it( 'should do a dummy test', function( done ) {
    request
      .end( function( err, res ) {
        res.status.should.equal( 200 );
        res.text.should.equal( 'hey' );
        done();
    });
  });

});

Note that test is exactly the same.

This are my results:

Even more, if I add more tests (same test); I still get the same results:

I don't think this is a normal behaviour, since it don't give me a reliable metric.

So, question is who is caching here ? or why is this happening ?

Not sure if this issue is related with Mocha, supertest, node's http module, or what.

Thanks in advance !

stack overflow question

[roccomuso]

+1

[aimer1124]

Change beforeEach to before

[Avcajaraville]

@aimer1124 No, thats not correct. Thats not what I am looking for.

Related: nodejs/help#173

[Avcajaraville]

Not fixed, but closing it anyway. This is probably due to time to set sockets