How to programmatically skip a test in mocha?

Question

I have a code where certain tests will always fail in CI environment. I would like to disable them based on an environment condition.

How to programmatically skip a

Answer 1

Please don't. A test that doesn't work consistently across environments should be acknowledged as such by your build infrastructure. And it can be very disorienting when the CI builds have a different number of tests run than local.

Also it screws up repeatability. If different tests run on the server and local I can have tests failing in dev and passing in CI or vice versa. There's no forcing function and I have no way to quickly and accurately correct a failed build.

If you must turn off tests between environments, instead of conditionally running tests, tag your tests and use a filter to eliminate tests that don't work in certain build targets. That way everybody knows what's going on and it tempers their expectations. It also lets everybody know that there's inconsistency in the test framework, and someone might have a solution that gets them running properly again. If you just mute the test they might not even know there's a problem.