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toEqual doesn't do deep equal

See original GitHub issue

🐛 Bug Report

toEqual doesn’t do deep equal

To Reproduce

just run:

 expect({
      target: {
        value: 'a',
        nodeType: 1
      }
    }).toEqual({
      target: {
        value: 'asd sad asd ad asdasdasd asdasdsa',
        nodeType: 1
      }
    });

Test will pass

Expected behavior

Test shoudn’t pass

Link to repl or repo (highly encouraged)

https://github.com/bondom/jest-bug

Run `npx envinfo --preset jest`

Paste the results here:

   System:
    OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
    CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7360U CPU @ 2.30GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 8.10.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
    npm: 6.0.1 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    jest: ^22.4.4 => 22.4.4

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

yeahiocommented, Feb 22, 2019

How about documenting this speciality behaviour? There’s nothing in the paragraph about toEqual. What could be worse than an unreliable test framework?

2reactions

jeysalcommented, Feb 22, 2019

@yeahio this bug has been fixed, and I’ve just tried it out and confirmed that it still is fixed