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WebDriver 5: seeTextEquals passes for any string if element is empty

See original GitHub issue

It works as expected with WebDriver 4 and doesn’t work with WebDriver 5.

What are you trying to achieve?

I want to test if the exact text “Authentication failed.” appears in the p subelement of

<div class="ui error message">
  <div class="content">
    <p></p>
  </div>
</div>

Let’s say now there is no value in p. So I.seeTextEquals("Authentication failed.", ".error.message"); should fail.

What do you get instead?

Provide console output if related. Use --verbose mode for more details.

This test passes:

Emitted | step.start (I see text equals "Authentication failed.", ".error.message")
    I see text equals "Authentication failed.", ".error.message"
    › [SmartWait (20000ms)] Locating .error.message in 20000
    Emitted | step.passed (I see text equals "Authentication failed.", ".error.message")
    Emitted | step.finish (I see text equals "Authentication failed.", ".error.message")

Provide test source code if related

    I.seeTextEquals("Authentication failed.", ".error.message");

Details

CodeceptJS version: 2.0.7
NodeJS Version: 10.15.1
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.10
WebDriver: 5.7.2
Configuration file:

exports.config = {
    tests: "./*_test.js",
    output: "./output",
    helpers: {
        WebDriver: {
            url: "http://localhost",
            browser: process.profile || "chrome",
            waitForTimeout: 20000,
            smartWait: 20000
        }
    },
    include: {
        I: "./steps_file.js"
    },
    bootstrap: null,
    mocha: {},
    name: "demo"
};

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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PeterNgTrcommented, Mar 14, 2019

Found the issue and fixed it -> https://github.com/Codeception/CodeceptJS/pull/1564

Test --
abc,
  ✖ Test @test in 12252ms

-- FAILURES:

  1) Test
       Test @test:
     expected element [id="site-logo"] "abc" to equal ""

  Scenario Steps:

  - I.seeTextEquals("abc", "[id="site-logo"]") at Test.Scenario (tests/smokeCheck/linkedin.js:20:5)
  - I.amOnPage("https://codecept.discourse.group/") at Test.Scenario (tests/smokeCheck/linkedin.js:19:5)



  Run with --verbose flag to see NodeJS stacktrace


  FAIL  | 0 passed, 1 failed   // 13s

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miraocommented, Dec 7, 2019

It works well with CodeceptJS 2.3.6, WebDriverIO 5.16.13