Bail after first test failure.
Commonly called fail fast, but Mocha uses --bail. Compromise? bail fast.
jasmine.getEnv().bailFast();
Jasmine-bail-fast augments jasmine.Env with a single method, bailFast. Call bailFast to tell jasmine to filter out all tests after the first failure.
Eventually this method should make it to jasmine core, and show up as a flag in jasmine-node.
npm install jasmine-bail-fast
Then before your first spec:
require('jasmine-bail-fast');
...
jasmine.getEnv().bailFast();