Timeout not triggering fail event

[averri]

Current behavior:

The fail event is not being captured when a test fails due to timeout.

Desired behavior:

The fail event should be captured when a test fails due to timeout.

Test code to reproduce

  cy.on('fail', () => {
    // This code will never be reached.
    cy.log('Ignoring this fail.')
    return false
  })

cy.get('div#submit').click({timeout: 1000})  // This should timeout. Make the button disabled to reproduce the timeout.

Versions

cypress 4.2.0, Windows 10.

[jennifer-shehane]

Ok, so this is likely due to the difference between cy.on and Cypress.on explained here: https://on.cypress.io/catalog-of-events#Cypress (It's hard to be certain because you did not specify where your cy.get() is being called in an it.)

As a side note, you cannot call cy commands within the event listeners. #6316

cy.on will only listen to events within the specific test whereas Cypress.on will listen to all events across tests.

Cypress.on('fail', () => {
  // This code will run for any failure in any test
  console.log('Cypress.on: Fail event')
  return false
})

it('test', () => {
  cy.on('fail', () => {
    // This code will run for this test failure
    console.log('cy.on: Fail event')
    return false
  })

  cy.visit('index.html')
  cy.get('#btn').click({ timeout: 1000 })
})

Please comment if you have an example outside of this where it is not working and we will consider reopening.

[averri]

Hi @jennifer-shehane, this could be caused by a 3rd party plugin. I have added more examples here: badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor#348

[jennifer-shehane]

Yeah, that may be.