Skip Tests in Mocha

Dynamically skip JavaScript tests at runtime with Mocha

One of the most common actions when writing or debugging tests, regardless of the framework used, is being able to ignore some tests.
That is especially true if you practice TDD, or tend to first list the placeholders for the tests you plan to write.

Another quick option is prepending x to the it or the describe:

In some situations, you’ll need to skip tests dynamically.
Example of such might be when the test depends on the running environment.

In this case use this.skip()

Do not execute any action after calling this.skip(), as the call will abort the test.

You can skip all tests in a describe block — including all it, beforeEach/ afterEach, and describe blocks within the suite - by using this.skip() in a before hook

You can run just a specific suite or test-case by appending .only() to the function.

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