Cypress is referencing to the wrong aliased element

[wlsf82]

Current behavior

I have a test that has three aliases for three different elements. They are:

cy.contains('button', 'Start')
  .as('startBtn')

cy.get('input[type="text"]')
  .as('textField')

cy.contains('button', 'Reset')
  .as('resetBtn')

As you can see, every alias refers to a different element.

The last assertion of my test is:

cy.get('@resetBtn')
  .should('not.exist')

And this exact step fails with the following error:

AssertionError: Timed out retrying after 4000ms: Expected to find element: `input[type="text"]`, but never found it.

Desired behavior

Cypress should refer to the correct element through its alias, and the tests should pass.

Test code to reproduce

Here's a draft PR that changes a sample app and updates its test, which fails with a failure that seems to be a Cypress issue: wlsf82/live-tat-code-cov#3.
And here's the failing test result from GitHub Actions https://github.com/wlsf82/live-tat-code-cov/pull/3/checks?check_run_id=3148179864.

Cypress Version

I tried on versions 8.0.0 and 7.7.0, and the issue happens on both of them.

Other

I'm using a macOS Big Sur Version 11.5

[wlsf82]

Analyzing the failure closer, Cypress is somehow running an assertion that has already run (see screenshots.)

[wlsf82]

@jennifer-shehane, would you mind looking into it, please?

[jennifer-shehane]

I believe this may be a duplicate of #7413 where there's a situation where the cy.contains is not correctly viewed as a parent command.

Can you try writing cy.root().contains() to replace the cy.contains() in your case and verify whether this fixes the issue?

[wlsf82]

I believe this may be a duplicate of #7413 where there's a situation where the cy.contains is not correctly viewed as a parent command.

Can you try writing cy.root().contains() to replace the cy.contains() in your case and verify whether this fixes the issue?

Yup, I've used cy.root().contains('button', 'Reset') and this fixes the issue.

And it does seem to be a duplicate of the issue you mentioned. Feel free to close this one.

Thanks!

Cc @jennifer-shehane

[wlsf82]

By the way, I'll read about cy.root(). I didn't know about it. 🙇