The Call Kent Podcast
The Call Kent Podcast
Kent C. Dodds
Test Data: To BeforeAll or to BeforeEach
6 minutes Posted Oct 19, 2022 at 1:30 am.
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Starting a new testing project, and I'm wondering if it's a bad practice to set up all the necessary seed data in a beforeAll to run the test suite then or if isolation is critical so that work should be done in a beforeEach. We have an application that requires a decent amount of data to get up and run, so we're trying to figure out what might be the best practices.

Test Data: To BeforeAll or to BeforeEach