I have a scenario that before running the actual test case I want to make sure my pre-requisites are successful. For that i have done the below code to check the same

var $preRequisite = _testcase("PR-1","test")
$tpreRequisite .start();
addUser("User1");
$tpreRequisite .end();

if($preRequisite.status == "SUCCESS")
{
var $t1= _testcase("TC-1","Test Case 1")
$t1.start();
//do other actions
$t1.end();
}

The above code is working with no issues. But in the log since we have used _testcase it will show 2 test cases in the report.

My requirement is before I start executing $t1 I should check the status of my pre-requisite without considering it in the report. Is there any method to do it. In _testcase API i have noticed "ecBef" and "ecAft" , is this something like @TestBefore and @TestAfter in TestNG ? if so how to use them in our scripting ?

Regards
Anand.