Is there a way to have a 'before' function before a specific test?

[grantholle]

I'm using datasets (which are amazing!), but I'm running into an issue where I'm trying to test some very specific edge cases on a piece of functionality. I would like the ability to have a beforeX function, just before one specific test.

Is there a way to do that on a it() function directly? The workaround is just to create an entire separate test file, but wondering if there was some sort of hook to do it for an individual test.

it('can do something', function (data) {
    // Test
})->with([
    // My datasets
])->before(function () {
    // Some custom setup logic for this specific test
});

[dansysanalyst]

Hi @grantholle,

You could possibly have something like:

<?php

beforeEach(function () {
    var_dump('Calls Before Each');

    if (str_contains($this->getName(), 'test #2')) {
        var_dump('runs only on test 2');
    }
});

test('test #1', function () {
    expect(true)->toBeTrue();
});

test('test #2', function ($str) {
    expect($str)->toBeString();
})->with(['a', 'b']);

Resulting in:

string(17) "Calls Before Each"

string(17) "Calls Before Each"

string(20) "runs only on test 2"

   PASS  Tests\Feature\ExampleTest
  ✓ test #1
  ✓ test #2 with ('a')
  ✓ test #2 with ('b')

  Tests:  3 passed
  Time:   1.81s

[grantholle]

Thanks. This could work.