Before and beforeEach in supportFile - unexpected behavior during 'run all specs'

[MUTOgen]

Current behavior:

before and beforeEach executed from support file seems unlogical.
As docs described, beforeEach runs before each test in each spec file.
In this way, I expect to see before hook before starting each spec file. But it doesn't, it runs only once.

Desired behavior:

Seems like more clear to run before hook before each spec file, like each before hook from spec file does.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

I just pasted this piece of code into support/index.js

before(() => {
    cy.log('Run before');
});

beforeEach(() => {
    cy.log('Run before each');
});

Versions

Cypress: 3.3.1
MacOs: 10.14.5
Google Chrome: 75.0.3770.100

[Songyu-Wang]

you can also put before() and beforeeach() inside spec files...

[MUTOgen]

you can also put before() and beforeeach() inside spec files...

Sure, but I'd like to extract some logic to support file. I don't really want to copy-paste before hook to each spec file.

[Songyu-Wang]

I'm so confused… If you have generic before and before each, you put it in support file, cypress will apply them to the spec you wanna run… if you have unique logic for each spec file, you put before and before each into particular spec files. I don't see anything wrong with that.

And based on the screenshot you have, you fixture loading got ran for each spec. What is the issue?

[MUTOgen]

I'm so confused… If you have generic before and before each, you put it in support file, cypress will apply them to the spec you wanna run… if you have unique logic for each spec file, you put before and before each into particular spec files. I don't see anything wrong with that.

And based on the screenshot you have, you fixture loading got ran for each spec. What is the issue?

That is what I'm talking about. I want to put some generic code into support file as before hook.
In my case it's just cy.log('Run before');.
Then I want to run all spec files at once (like CI does, for example). As you can see, I got a log message only once. When For non-registered users runs, there is no log message. I expected the same before hook there.
Fixtures loading is ok, b/c I copy-pasted it in each spec file.

[Songyu-Wang]

Oh, I see the issue now… sorry I didn't realize there are two before defined by you. Sorry… please ignore whatever I said… I think you are right

[jennifer-shehane]

This falls under this body of work: #1586

[MUTOgen]

This falls under this body of work: #1586

Are there any estimates about finishing this?

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[cypress-app-bot]

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