Is there a way to deliberately make a test fail?

[freightgateone]

Say I am writing a bit of non-ST code inside a seperate function and may want to make my test fail or continue based on this functions result.

How would I do this?

I've seen some stuff in the API documentation but am not sure if I am using it correctly

describe("asdf", function(done) {
    it("should pass", function() {
        reject().then(function(){
            alert("wont happen");
        }).catch(function(e){
            ST.WatchDog.fail(e);
        });
    });
});


function reject (){
    return Promise.reject("custom message")
}

This is from the jasmine docs and does not work either

describe("asdf", function(done) {
    it("should pass", function() {
        reject().then(function(){
            alert("wont happen");
        }).catch(function(e){
                     done.fail(e);
        });
    });
});


function reject (){
    return Promise.reject("custom message")
}

I am getting the following error everytime:
Error: describe does not expect any arguments at Env.describe (C:\Program Files\Sencha\Test\2_2_1_83\resources\app.asar\node_modules\orion-core\node_modules\jasmine-core\lib\jasmine-core\jasmine.js:828:15) at doDescribe (C:\Program Files\Sencha\Test\2_2_1_83\resources\app.asar\node_modules\orion-core\serve\jasmine-post-extensions.js:52:26) at Object.fn (C:\Program Files\Sencha\Test\2_2_1_83\resources\app.asar\node_modules\orion-core\serve\jasmine-post-extensions.js:90:20) at next (C:\Program Files\Sencha\Test\2_2_1_83\resources\app.asar\node_modules\orion-core\serve\orion.js:918:24)

[daniel.gallo]

You can use the "fail" method in Jasmine to mark a test as failed, and provide a custom error message:

it('should fail', function() {
    fail('Here is my custom error'); 
});

Also, I noticed the code samples you provided above show the "done" parameter being used within the "describe" function - it should instead be placed within the "it" function.