Run test files/suites in parallel (not describes within them)

[rossanthony]

Based on the options available today with mocha-parallel-tests is it possible to run a series of test files/suites in parallel? In other words; make it execute each of the describes inside each file/suite consecutively, but would run multiple test files/suites simultaneously?

The reason I ask is that we have some describes inside certain test suites that need to happen in order otherwise they will give false negatives. But the test suites/files themselves are independent of one another and should be able to run in any order as long as the describes within them are run consecutively.

[1999]

Currently this files/suites behaviour is not well documented. I'm working on v2 which should run all top level describes in parallel. But maybe it's worth it to add an option to run just files in parallel.

[rossanthony]

Sounds good, so with v2 as long as all of our test files contain one top level describe, even if there are many nested describes and it’s within, we could achieve the desired effect of running just the files in parallel?

If it’s not too much trouble then I think adding an option could be cool, so it would be more obvious what’s going on. Also I guess it would have the added benefit that we wouldn’t have to worry about refactoring test suites to ensure they contain just one top level describe if there’s an option that can be passed when running.

How far away is v2 by the way? Is there anything I can help out with?

[1999]

Sorry for silence. v2 is here, changelog should be up to date.