Why isn't Jest applying my timeout when I use jest.setTimeout()? [duplicate] - jestjs

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How can I increase the test time out value in jest?
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I know I can use jest.setTimeout() to set a custom timeout for a test. I'm doing this below. MINUTE has the value 60 * 1000.
Why isn't Jest applying my timeout?
thrown: "Exceeded timeout of 5000 ms for a test.
Use jest.setTimeout(newTimeout) to increase the timeout value, if this is a long-running test."
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14 | describe(`integration with API provider`, () => {
> 15 | it(`works`, async () => {
| ^
16 | // Just in case network is slow.
17 | jest.setTimeout(1 * MINUTE);

Answer 1

As you've seen (and despite what's claimed elsewhere on SO), you cannot change a single test's timeout by calling jest.setTimeout from inside it. Note that the docs you quote state (emphasis mine):
This only affects the test file from which this function is called.
It's intended to be used at test discovery time, not execution time, to set the timeout for a given context. The timeout is set before the test callback is invoked, you can't change it once the test actually starts.
For a single test you can set the timeout by passing a third argument to the test/it function (or the various helpers defined on it), for example:
it("has a description", () => {
// ...
}, 60_000);