Mocha: Setting message (reason) for test skip

[ponmudivn]

Is it possible to set a message (mentioning reason) why a particular test is skipped, so that it could be used in reporters.

describe('xxx', function() {
 checkToSkip(1)("test1", function() {\*test goes here*\});
 checkToSkip(4)("test2", function() {\*test goes here*\});
});

function checkToSkip(now) {
    return now > 3 ? it : xit; 
   //return now > 3 ? it : it.skip; 
}

Here 'test1' will be skipped as 'checkToSkip' returns 'xit' (or it.skip). Is it possible to pass a message to reporter mentioning the reason for the test skip? something like below (or any other possible way).

checkToSkip(4)("test2", function() { \\ test goes here}, "My Skip message!!!!" );

or

checkToSkip(4)("test2", function() { \\ test goes here}).pending("My Skip message!!!!");

Note: Im using mocha in webdriverIO.

Thanks.

[ponmudivn]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31688650/is-it-possible-to-send-a-reason-for-jasmine-2-specs-skipped-with-xit-or-pending

This thread explains the solution for same problem using Jasmine. Im looking for something similar in Mocha.

[vivganes]

I too would love to have something like that.

I could not find any inputs about how to enter reason for skipping in documentation here

May be a candidate for a feature request? It could just be a case that the documentation is missing while feature is there.

[ponmudivn]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40397201/mocha-setting-message-reason-for-test-skip/40407177#40407177

fyi: a workaround to achieve this is available in above thread.

[boneskull]

this would be a good usability improvement, but see @ponmudivn's workaround

[jeffvandyke]

One approach that could cover all use cases and would only be a small api change would be to allow an optional reason parameter to this.skip(). The it.skip(...) case could be satisfied by just calling this.skip("reason") in the first line of the test.

[monkey-programmer]

Agreed with @jeffvandyke I would love to have this feature

[Nokel81]

How about doing:

    it.skip("A test").reason("Code has changed");

But that doesn't allow for using the this.skip api, so maybe it can also accept a second or third string parameter as the reason as well. But that just seems weird in my opinion.

[boneskull]

duplicate of #2026