[Bug] Simple tests fail randomly

Current behavior:

• Tests passes or
• Tests fail randomly clicking on menu items due elements not visible?

How the test(s) look like:

it('Audiences > Source audiences', function () {
	cy.get('li[id="mainMenu:Audiences"]').should('be.visible').click()
	cy.get('li[id="mainMenu:SourceAudiences"]').should('be.visible').click()
        cy.url().should('eq', 'https://domain.com/audiences')
	cy.get('h1[id="screen-title"]').should('have.text', 'Your audiences')
	cy.get('h4[id="screen-subtitle"]').should('have.text', 'Manage & create your source audiences')
})

or even when i run the test like this the same bevavior

it('Audiences > Source audiences', function () {
	cy.get('li[id="mainMenu:Audiences"]').click()
	cy.get('li[id="mainMenu:SourceAudiences"]').click()
        cy.url().should('eq', 'https://domain.com/audiences')
	cy.get('h1[id="screen-title"]').should('have.text', 'Your audiences')
	cy.get('h4[id="screen-subtitle"]').should('have.text', 'Manage & create your source audiences')
})

Also happening when running headless mode.

Desired behavior:

Tests should always pass since the snapshots are showing the elements just fine? Sometimes the elements seems not to be recognized as visible in cypress GUI.

Versions

Cypress: 3.0.0 / Windows 10

[pgroot91]

I solved this by adding cy.wait() between the navigation. It takes around +/- 3 times longer for the full test to run, but at-least the tests are all passing now! The cause of the test randomly failing seems to be the loading time of iframe(s) on those pages. When the iframe is not completely loaded test(s) fails.

[jennifer-shehane]

Unfortunately we have to close this issue as there is not enough information to reproduce the problem.

Please comment in this issue with a reproducible example and we will reopen the issue. 🙏