How to run a single test with Mocha?

Question

I use Mocha to test my JavaScript stuff. My test file contains 5 tests. Is that possible to run a specific test (or set of tests) rather than all the tests in the file?

Answer 1

For those who are looking to run a single file but they cannot make it work, what worked for me was that I needed to wrap my test cases in a describe suite as below and then use the describe title e.g. 'My Test Description' as pattern.

describe('My Test Description', () => {
  it('test case 1', () => {
    // My test code
  })
  it('test case 2', () => {
  // My test code
  })
})

then run

yarn test -g "My Test Description"

or

npm run test -g "My Test Description"