Encountering this error during test runs led me to the decision to address it by adding a timeout value to the test case. After experimenting with a few values, 7000 ms emerged as the optimal choice, and hoorah! 🎉 The test passed.
On another day, rerunning the tests revealed that the same test now failed with a timeout error:
Thrown: "Exceeded timeout of 7000 ms for a test.
Add a timeout value to this test to increase the timeout if it's a long-running test. See https://jestjs.io/docs/api#testname-fn-timeout."
Additionally, a couple more errors appeared for other tests:
Thrown: "Exceeded timeout of 5000 ms for a test.
Add a timeout value to this test to increase the timeout if it's a long-running test. See https://jestjs.io/docs/api#testname-fn-timeout."
Now, one test failed for a 7000 ms timeout and two others for a 5000 ms timeout. After trial-testing with different values, settling on 10000, 7000, 8000 seemed to solve the issue! 🎉🎉
But wait! Was the battle ⚔️ against Jest test timeouts truly won? Not quite. Similar situations recurred, necessitating manual trial-tests and updates to values in specific test cases.
So, how did I overcome this never-ending battle against Jest?The answer lies in configuring Jest timeouts! 😉
Top comments (3)
A distracting article that's not a solution. Please remove this.
At least explain how to increase the timeout. And ideally how to increase in a common way across the whole project.
How is this even useful? I am exausted of the void internet, only noise.