Before/beforeEach hooks run multiple times when running all tests is invoked from Cypress GUI

[ghost]

Current behavior

When running all spec files is invoked from GUI using the "Run ## integrations tests" button, then all beforeEach and before hooks run as many times as there are spec files before each and before all tests.

This is the hook in question - it resides in a common steps file

This is what I see when the test runs - it slows the whole test suite by a lot.

The same does not happen when tests are invoked in headless mode - then all hooks run correctly.

Desired behavior

before hooks should only run once per the whole test suite (before each spec file would also be acceptable)
beforeEach hooks should only run once before each scenario.

Test code to reproduce

I will provide one when I have more time to work on this

Versions

• Cypress version: 9.3.5
• Preprocessor version: 9.2.1
• Node version: 16.9.1

[badeball]

This is a problem with Cypress, is present with preprocessor or not, and reported EG. here.

[ghost]

Ah, I see. Would it be difficult to work around the issue by wrapping each feature in a describe block, as pointed out by this comment? I understand it might be undesirable to "fix" underlying problems by introducing workarounds, but I guess this one might be warranted.

[badeball]

The 10-release is scheduled for 1st of june and appears to be removing "Run all specs" altogether, ref:

The “Run all specs” and “Run filtered specs” functionality have been removed.

Hence, this is not something I will be focusing on.