Setup and Teardown of Tests

Teardown functions

When writing tests, sometimes we need to set up some things before running a test spec.

The type of things we may need to initialize before running a test can include:

• Creating mock data
• Setting some global variables
• Creating mock services needed to run the function under test.

All this can be handled as part of the setup of a test, but we can also clear these mock services and data as part of the teardown of a test suite. To do this, Jasmine provides us with four functions we can use in a test suite, which are set out in the following list: