Reload window on every jasmine spec in teaspoon

Question

Using teaspoon and jasmine to test some JS. The js is putting things in 'window'.

Is there a way to completely reload the page for every spec so that this 'window' is newly initialized.

Answer 1

I am not sure if reloading the browser will be a good idea. You could run into Some of your tests did a full page reload jasmine error and it could make your tests slow. What I would do is take advantage of the beforeEach, beforeAll, afterEach, afterAll hooks.

beforeEach runs before every it test in a describe block and beforeAll runs once before all of the it tests inside of a describe block.

afterEach runs after every it tests in a describe block and afterAll runs once after all of the it tests inside of a describe block.

What you can do is take advantage of these hooks and appropriately add and remove stuff to the window and do clean up after each test (in maybe afterEach or afterAll) hooks.