# Timeouts

By default, asynchronous hooks and steps timeout after 5000 milliseconds.
This can be modified globally with:

```javascript
var {setDefaultTimeout} = require('@cucumber/cucumber');

setDefaultTimeout(60 * 1000);
```

A specific hook's or step's timeout can be set with:

```javascript
var {Before, Given} = require('@cucumber/cucumber');

Before({timeout: 60 * 1000}, function() {
  // Does some slow browser/filesystem/network actions
});

Given(/^a slow step$/, {timeout: 60 * 1000}, function() {
  // Does some slow browser/filesystem/network actions
});
```

*Note that you should not call `setDefaultTimeout` from within other support code e.g. a step, hook or your World class; it should be called globally.*

## Disable Timeouts

**DO NOT USE THIS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY**

Disable timeouts by setting it to -1.
If you use this, you need to implement your own timeout protection.
Otherwise the test suite may end prematurely or hang indefinitely.
The helper `wrapPromiseWithTimeout`, which cucumber-js itself uses to enforce timeouts is available if needed.

```javascript
var {Before, Given, wrapPromiseWithTimeout} = require('@cucumber/cucumber');

Given('the operation completes within {n} minutes', {timeout: -1}, function(minutes) {
  const milliseconds = (minutes + 1) * 60 * 1000
  return wrapPromiseWithTimeout(this.verifyOperationComplete(), milliseconds);
});
```