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("Profile Ta         


        

Answer 1

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