[Feature]: Allow cases in different suites in the same test file to have the same name.

[geoidesic]

🚀 Feature Proposal

Use describe's first argument (i.e. name) to differentiate test cases with the same name.

Motivation

The point of using describe and it ("should blah blah") is to make the tests more easily human readable. One problem with the implementation is that having test multiple cases with the same names in two different suites (in the same file) will cause the latter case results to override the former's.

E.g.

describe("MyFunction", () => {
  it("should return true for valid input", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });

  it("should return false for invalid input", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });
});
describe("MyOtherFunction", () => {
  it("should return true for valid input", () => {
    // Test implementation: overrides MyFunction test
  });

  it("should return false for invalid input", () => {
    // Test implementation: overrides MyFunction test
  });
});

This makes it unwieldy because you have to ensure that every case has a unique identifier. It also shouldn't be necessary because the cases are already differentiated by being in a different suite. It should be relatively straight forward to adjust the implementation to concatatenate the suite and case names together for your key store.

Example

Instead of having to write it like this:

describe("MyFunction", () => {
  it("should return true for valid input in MyFunction", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });

  it("should return false for invalid input in MyFunction", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });
});

describe("MyOtherFunction", () => {
  it("should return true for valid input in MyOtherFunction", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });

  it("should return false for invalid input in MyOtherFunction", () => {
    // Test implementation
  });
});

Pitch

• allows my test case names to be written it more concisely
• better readability (less cognitive load)
• makes it easier to read in a UI app like Majestic, which already indents cases by suite, so all the additional text, currently necessary, isn't welcome
• should be easy to implement without side-effects on the existing system

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