My jest Tests fail when running in parallel in jest.

When I try and run

jest 

From my project root I get the following error and the test process terminates.

"A worker process has quit unexpectedly!"

I am using jest 19.0.2 and node 6.9.4. I have also tried other binations of node 7.7.2 and jest 19.0 which didn't work either.

Note that when I run my tests sequentially using

jest --runInBand

My tests work fine. Although since they are not running in parallel they are slower which is not ideal.

My tests launch the same server for each new test so perhaps running parallel means that multiple tests are trying to launch the server on a port where it is already running.

Here is my package.json:

{
  "name": "app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "devDependencies": {
    "autoprefixer": "6.5.1",
    "babel-core": "6.17.0",
    "babel-eslint": "7.1.1",
    "babel-jest": "17.0.2",
    "babel-loader": "6.2.7",
    "babel-preset-react-app": "^2.0.1",
    "case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin": "1.1.4",
    "chai": "^3.5.0",
    "chai-as-promised": "^6.0.0",
    "chalk": "1.1.3",
    "connect-history-api-fallback": "1.3.0",
    "cross-spawn": "4.0.2",
    "css-loader": "0.26.0",
    "detect-port": "1.0.1",
    "dotenv": "2.0.0",
    "eslint": "3.8.1",
    "eslint-config-react-app": "^0.5.0",
    "eslint-loader": "1.6.0",
    "eslint-plugin-flowtype": "2.21.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.0.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "6.4.1",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
    "file-loader": "0.9.0",
    "filesize": "3.3.0",
    "fs-extra": "0.30.0",
    "gzip-size": "3.0.0",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "2.24.0",
    "http-proxy-middleware": "0.17.2",
    "jest": "^19.0.2",
    "jest-css-modules": "^1.1.0",
    "json-loader": "0.5.4",
    "object-assign": "4.1.0",
    "path-exists": "2.1.0",
    "postcss-loader": "1.0.0",
    "promise": "7.1.1",
    "react-dev-utils": "^0.4.2",
    "recursive-readdir": "2.1.0",
    "redux-mock-store": "^1.2.2",
    "sinon": "^1.17.7",
    "strip-ansi": "3.0.1",
    "style-loader": "0.13.1",
    "supertest": "^3.0.0",
    "url-loader": "0.5.7",
    "webpack": "1.14.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "1.16.2",
    "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
    "whatwg-fetch": "1.0.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.15.3",
    "bcrypt-nodejs": "0.0.3",
    "body-parser": "^1.16.0",
    "cors": "^2.8.1",
    "eventemitter2": "^3.0.1",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "jwt-simple": "^0.5.1",
    "mocha": "^3.2.0",
    "mongoose": "^4.7.8",
    "morgan": "^1.7.0",
    "nodemon": "^1.11.0",
    "passport": "^0.3.2",
    "passport-jwt": "^2.2.1",
    "passport-local": "^1.0.0",
    "react": "^15.4.2",
    "react-dom": "^15.4.2",
    "react-redux": "^5.0.2",
    "react-router": "^3.0.2",
    "redux": "^3.6.0",
    "redux-devtools-extension": "^2.13.0",
    "redux-form": "^5.3.3",
    "redux-socket.io": "^1.3.1",
    "redux-thunk": "^2.2.0",
    "socket.io-client": "^1.7.3",
    "socketio-auth": "^0.1.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node scripts/start.js",
    "build": "node scripts/build.js",
    "test": "jest --runInBand"
  },
  "jest": {
    "collectCoverageFrom": [
      "src/**/*.{js,jsx}"
    ],
    "setupFiles": [
      "<rootDir>/config/polyfills.js"
    ],
    "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
      "<rootDir>[/\\\\](build|docs|node_modules)[/\\\\]"
    ],
    "testEnvironment": "jest-environment-jsdom",
    "testURL": "http://localhost",
    "transform": {
      "^.+\\.(js|jsx)$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest",
      "^.+\\.css$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/jest-css-modules"
    },
    "transformIgnorePatterns": [
      "[/\\\\]node_modules[/\\\\].+\\.(js|jsx)$"
    ],
    "verbose": true,
    "moduleNameMapper": {
      "^react-native$": "react-native-web"
    }
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "react-app"
    ]
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
  }
}

My jest Tests fail when running in parallel in jest.

When I try and run

jest 

From my project root I get the following error and the test process terminates.

"A worker process has quit unexpectedly!"

I am using jest 19.0.2 and node 6.9.4. I have also tried other binations of node 7.7.2 and jest 19.0 which didn't work either.

Note that when I run my tests sequentially using

jest --runInBand

My tests work fine. Although since they are not running in parallel they are slower which is not ideal.

My tests launch the same server for each new test so perhaps running parallel means that multiple tests are trying to launch the server on a port where it is already running.

Here is my package.json:

{
  "name": "app",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "devDependencies": {
    "autoprefixer": "6.5.1",
    "babel-core": "6.17.0",
    "babel-eslint": "7.1.1",
    "babel-jest": "17.0.2",
    "babel-loader": "6.2.7",
    "babel-preset-react-app": "^2.0.1",
    "case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin": "1.1.4",
    "chai": "^3.5.0",
    "chai-as-promised": "^6.0.0",
    "chalk": "1.1.3",
    "connect-history-api-fallback": "1.3.0",
    "cross-spawn": "4.0.2",
    "css-loader": "0.26.0",
    "detect-port": "1.0.1",
    "dotenv": "2.0.0",
    "eslint": "3.8.1",
    "eslint-config-react-app": "^0.5.0",
    "eslint-loader": "1.6.0",
    "eslint-plugin-flowtype": "2.21.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.0.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "6.4.1",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
    "file-loader": "0.9.0",
    "filesize": "3.3.0",
    "fs-extra": "0.30.0",
    "gzip-size": "3.0.0",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "2.24.0",
    "http-proxy-middleware": "0.17.2",
    "jest": "^19.0.2",
    "jest-css-modules": "^1.1.0",
    "json-loader": "0.5.4",
    "object-assign": "4.1.0",
    "path-exists": "2.1.0",
    "postcss-loader": "1.0.0",
    "promise": "7.1.1",
    "react-dev-utils": "^0.4.2",
    "recursive-readdir": "2.1.0",
    "redux-mock-store": "^1.2.2",
    "sinon": "^1.17.7",
    "strip-ansi": "3.0.1",
    "style-loader": "0.13.1",
    "supertest": "^3.0.0",
    "url-loader": "0.5.7",
    "webpack": "1.14.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "1.16.2",
    "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
    "whatwg-fetch": "1.0.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.15.3",
    "bcrypt-nodejs": "0.0.3",
    "body-parser": "^1.16.0",
    "cors": "^2.8.1",
    "eventemitter2": "^3.0.1",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "jwt-simple": "^0.5.1",
    "mocha": "^3.2.0",
    "mongoose": "^4.7.8",
    "morgan": "^1.7.0",
    "nodemon": "^1.11.0",
    "passport": "^0.3.2",
    "passport-jwt": "^2.2.1",
    "passport-local": "^1.0.0",
    "react": "^15.4.2",
    "react-dom": "^15.4.2",
    "react-redux": "^5.0.2",
    "react-router": "^3.0.2",
    "redux": "^3.6.0",
    "redux-devtools-extension": "^2.13.0",
    "redux-form": "^5.3.3",
    "redux-socket.io": "^1.3.1",
    "redux-thunk": "^2.2.0",
    "socket.io-client": "^1.7.3",
    "socketio-auth": "^0.1.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node scripts/start.js",
    "build": "node scripts/build.js",
    "test": "jest --runInBand"
  },
  "jest": {
    "collectCoverageFrom": [
      "src/**/*.{js,jsx}"
    ],
    "setupFiles": [
      "<rootDir>/config/polyfills.js"
    ],
    "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
      "<rootDir>[/\\\\](build|docs|node_modules)[/\\\\]"
    ],
    "testEnvironment": "jest-environment-jsdom",
    "testURL": "http://localhost",
    "transform": {
      "^.+\\.(js|jsx)$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest",
      "^.+\\.css$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/jest-css-modules"
    },
    "transformIgnorePatterns": [
      "[/\\\\]node_modules[/\\\\].+\\.(js|jsx)$"
    ],
    "verbose": true,
    "moduleNameMapper": {
      "^react-native$": "react-native-web"
    }
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "react-app"
    ]
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
  }
}

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Try adding this flag to the jest CLI mand:

jest --env=jsdom --runInBand

from the Jest API docs

http://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/cli.html#env-environment