Message Async callback was not invoked within the 5000 ms timeout specified by jest setTimeout

Question

I m using Puppeteer and Jest to run some front end tests  My tests look as follows  describe  quot Profile Tab Exists and Clickable   settings user quot        gt        test  Assert that you can click the profile tab   async      gt          await page waitForSelector PROFILE TAB         await page click PROFILE TAB          30000         Sometimes  when I run the tests  everything works as expectedly  Other times  I get an error   Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 5000 ms timeout specified by jest setTimeout       at node modules jest-jasmine2 build queue runner js 68 21  lt br  gt       at Timeout callback  as  onTimeout   node modules jsdom lib jsdom browser Window js 633 19    This is strange because   I specified the timeout to be 30000  Whether or not I get this error is seemingly very random   Why is this happening

User · Answer

You can also get timeout errors based on silly typos. e.g This seemingly innocuous mistake:

describe('Something', () => {
  it('Should do something', () => {
    expect(1).toEqual(1)
  })

  it('Should do nothing', something_that_does_not_exist => {
    expect(1).toEqual(1)
  })
})

Produces the following error:

FAIL src/TestNothing.spec.js (5.427s)
  ? Something › Should do nothing

    Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 5000ms timeout specified by jest.setTimeout.
      
      at node_modules/jest-jasmine2/build/queue_runner.js:68:21
      at Timeout.callback [as _onTimeout] (node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/Window.js:678:19)

Whilst the code sample posted doesn't suffer from this it might be a cause of failures elsewhere. Also note that I'm not setting a timeout for anything anywhere - either here or in the config. The 5000ms is just the default setting.

User · Answer

For those who are looking for an explanation about jest --runInBand  you can go to the documentation  Running Puppeteer in CI environments GitHub - smooth-code jest-puppeteer  Run your tests using Jest  amp  Puppeteer

User · Answer

Make sure to invoke done    on callbacks or it simply won t pass the test  beforeAll  done    Call it or remove it        gt      done       Calling it      It applies to all other functions that have a done   callback

User · Answer

For Jest 24 9  we just need to add --testTimeout in the command line --testTimeout  10000    timeout of 10s  The default timeout value is 5000  This will be applicable for all test cases  or if you want to give timeout to particular function only then you can use this syntax while declaring the test case  test name  fn  timeout   example test  example   async      gt           10000      timeout of 10s  default is 5000

User · Answer

The answer to this question has changed as Jest has evolved  Current answer  March 2019    You can override the timeout of any individual test by adding a third parameter to the it  I e   it  runs slow        gt         9999   You can change the default using jest setTimeout  To do this     Configuration  quot setupFilesAfterEnv quot         NOT setupFiles      quot   src jest defaultTimeout js quot      and    File  src jest defaultTimeout js    Global jest    jest setTimeout 1000    Like others have noted  and not directly related to this  done is not necessary with the async await approach

User · Answer

This is a relatively new update  but it is much more straight forward  If you are using Jest 24 9 0 or higher you can just add testTimeout to your config     in jest config js module exports       testTimeout  30000

User · Answer

I recently ran into this issue for a different reason  I was running some tests synchronously using jest -i  and it would just timeout  For whatever reasoning  running the same tests using jest --runInBand  even though -i is meant to be an alias  doesn t time out   Maybe this will help someone

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In case someone doesn t fix the problem use methods above  I fixed mine by surrounding the async func by an arrow function  As in  describe  quot Profile Tab Exists and Clickable   settings user quot        gt        test  Assert that you can click the profile tab         gt          async      gt            await page waitForSelector PROFILE TAB          await page click PROFILE TAB                    30000

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It should call the async await when it is async from test   describe  Profile Tab Exists and Clickable   settings user        gt        test  Assert that you can click the profile tab   async  done    gt            await page waitForSelector PROFILE TAB           await page click PROFILE TAB           done           30000

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I would like to add  this is a bit long for a comment  that even with a timeout of 3000 my tests would still sometimes  randomly  fail with  Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 5000ms timeout specified by jest setTimeout   Thanks to Tarun s great answer  I think the shortest way to fix a lot of tests is  describe  puppeteer tests        gt      beforeEach      gt        jest setTimeout 10000            test  best jest test fest   async      gt           Blah

User · Answer

In my case  this error started appearing randomly and wouldn t go away even after setting a timeout of 30000  Simply ending the process in the terminal and re-running the tests resolved the issue for me  I have also removed the timeout and tests are still passing again

User · Answer

For Jest 24 9   you can also set the timeout from the command line by adding --testTimeout  Here s an excerpt from its documentation   --testTimeout  lt number gt  Default timeout of a test in milliseconds  Default value  5000

User · Answer

The timeout problem occurs when either the network is slow or many network calls are made using await  These scenarios exceed the default timeout  i e   5000 ms  To avoid the timeout error  simply increase the timeout of globals that support a timeout  A list of globals and their signature can be found here  For Jest 24 9

User · Answer

In jest setup js jest setTimeout 30000   If on Jest  lt   23     In jest config js module exports       setupTestFrameworkScriptFile     jest setup js     If on Jest  gt  23     In jest config js module exports       setupFilesAfterEnv      jest setup js

User · Answer

Yet another solution  set the timeout in the jest config file  e g            other stuff here      quot testTimeout quot   90000

User · Answer

The timeout you specify here needs to be shorter than the default timeout  The default timeout is 5000 and the framework by default is jasmine in case of jest  You can specify the timeout inside the test by adding jest setTimeout 30000    But this would be specific to the test  Or you can set up the configuration file for the framework  Configuring Jest    jest config js module exports          setupTestFrameworkScriptFile has been deprecated in      favor of setupFilesAfterEnv in jest 24   setupFilesAfterEnv      jest setup js         jest setup js jest setTimeout 30000   See also these threads  setTimeout per test  5055 Make jasmine DEFAULT TIMEOUT INTERVAL configurable  652 P S   The misspelling setupFilesAfterEnv  i e  setupFileAfterEnv  will also throw the same error

[javascript] Message "Async callback was not invoked within the 5000 ms timeout specified by jest.setTimeout"

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