Can Jasmine tests be executed in a specific order?

Question

I believe it is considered to be a bad practice to rely on the order in which the (acceptance) tests should be run, but for testing "deeply nested features" (I don't know if there is a standard term for that) it might help to save time (I mean to save the time of repeating the same set of operations before each test; what I have in mind are actually Protractor tests).

So my question is whether there is a standard reliable way to fix the order in which Jasmine tests are perfomed.

Answer 1

On Jasmine 3.x, random order is the default behavior.

To run in order file written order, you can specify --random=false or use a seed.

Docs: https://jasmine.github.io/api/3.3/Configuration.html