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Ok... `beforeTest` and `afterTest` works... but what's the difference? It sounds from the docs that `beforeEach` should be called before each test case with the type `Test`, `should` isn't a `Test`?

Perhaps you need to set a different `isolationMode` to have the behavior you expect?

Maybe... but I put all the code inside the `should`, so that shouldn't really affect this... I'm just having trouble understanding the difference between the various lifecycle stages...

Me too, and I don’t use `beforeTest` and `afterTest` much really, so I mostly wanted to mention isolation mode in case you didn’t know that the default is somewhat confusing for JUnit users (as each spec is by default only instantiated once? I think)

Anyway we use listeners sparingly and since we’re using isolationMode#perLeaf, we can just rely on before/afterSpec for mostly junit-like behavior

It seems like
```IsolationMode.SingleInstance```
is the default..., thanks for the remark! I still need listeners for testcontainers though, and it's really puzzling how when a test is run by itself, it works, whereas in the whole suite, that same test fails...

Setting isolation mode to `perLeaf` should make the tests mostly independent, unless you’re sharing some statics. Or the listeners aren’t ran as you expect, but I’m not that familiar with them. Perhaps if you post a sample spec with simple listeners with prints and when you’d expect them to run but they don’t, someone will point you towards a solution :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks! I finally managed to sort things out, your little pointer got rid of a problem that was hiding a problem in the actual test code... I guess I'll be using `perLeaf` until I manage to sort out the repercussions of the other modes...