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&gt; Is it supposed to be possible for `beforeSpec` to get called more than once on a single `Spec`?
I'm asking because with 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 we're seeing `beforeSpec` getting called twice on a single spec, _but only sometimes_. (We weren't seeing this behavior with 5.6.2 or earlier.) How many times it gets run seems nondeterministic: on some machines it only calls it once, on others it'll call it twice. Other things can affect this too, like if all specs are being run, or only a subset, or even if the repo is clean or had previously run the tests.

Given the nondeterminism, it feels like a race condition: like something is not realizing that another coroutine already ran (or started to run) `beforeSpec`, and so it runs it again.

The docs seem to imply that `beforeSpec` is only supposed to be called once per spec instance, though I can't find a place where they say this explicitly.

So before I file a bug report about this, I'd like to confirm: *is `beforeSpec` supposed to only get called once per spec instance?*

I’d say it is safe to assume that beforeSpec is supposed to be called once per spec. The behavior you’re seeing is most likely a bug.

Ok, thanks. I've filed an issue: <https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/3684>