How to programmatically skip a test in mocha?

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You can skip tests by placing an x in front of the describe or it block, or placing a .skip after it.

xit('should work', function (done) {});

describe.skip('features', function() {});

You can also run a single test by placing a .only on the test. for instance

describe('feature 1', function() {});
describe.only('feature 2', function() {});
describe('feature 3', function() {});

Only the feature 2 block would run in this case.

There doesn’t appear to be a way to programmatically skip tests, but you could just do some sort of check in a beforeEach statement and only run the test if the flag was set.

beforeEach(function(){
    if (wrongEnvironment){
        runTest = false
    }
}

describe('feature', function(){
    if(runTest){
         it('should work', function(){
            // Test would not run or show up if runTest was false,
         }
    }
}

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