Spec output either strange or completely missing

[romanbloeth]

I have added a spec as first of four in a describe block. When it is the only spec in that block, I get the following output:

[..]
updateTimerDisplay
 - calls removeCountdownTimer($widget) if no seconds are remaining...     SlideshowHome
[..]

(no checkmark or cross, but a minus sign in the beginning of the line and the final line break missing, so the title of the next describe block follows in the same output line)

when I disable that spec (with xit(...)), I get this output:

[..]
updateTimerDisplay
 * calls removeCountdownTimer($widget) if no seconds are remaining
SlideshowHome
[..]

but when I enable it together with the other specs, the output of the first spec is missing completely, but it is counted in the final specs count output from the jasmine task run.

Any ideas?

[jsoverson]

How are you running this? The output will differ slightly based on whether or not you are in a proper terminal or not.

[romanbloeth]

I'm running it with coloured output in Terminator using the bash shell. Also, I've updated the output display in my first post a bit.

[romanbloeth]

Ok, the code being executed in these cases is ./node_modules/grunt-contrib-jasmine/tasks/jasmine.js:210:

    phantomjs.on('jasmine.specStarted', function(specMetaData) {
      thisRun.executedSpecs++;
      thisRun.cleanConsole = true;
      grunt.log.write(indent(indentLevel) + '- ' + chalk.grey(specMetaData.description) + '...');
    });

That's how far I've gotten until now - will try to dig deeper into it if my time allows for it.

[romanbloeth]

And I can reproduce it with this code:

Acutal JS code tested (using jquery.slides.js from http://www.slidesjs.com/):

        SlideshowHome: {
            initialize: function initialize() {
                var $slideshowContainer = $('#slideshow-teaser-home');

                if ($slideshowContainer.length) {
                    $slideshowContainer.slidesjs({
                        width: 1024,
                        height: 144,
                        effect: {
                            fade: {
                                speed: 300,
                                crossfade: true
                            }
                        },
                        play: {
                            active: false,
                            effect: 'fade',
                            interval: 5000,
                            auto: true,
                            pauseOnHover: true
                        },
                        navigation: {
                            active: false,
                            effect: "fade"
                        },
                        pagination: {
                            active: true,
                            effect: "fade"
                        }
                    });
                }
            }
        },

The spec I'm currently trying out for the above code:

            describe('SlideshowHome', function () {
                describe('initialize', function () {
                    it('invokes the slidesjs function on the slideshow container element', function () {
                        setFixtures('<div id="slideshow-teaser-home"></div>');
                        var $slideshowContainer = $('#slidshow-teaser-home');
                        spyOn($.fn, 'slidesjs');

                        Lesara.Catalog.SlideshowHome.initialize();

                        expect($.fn.slidesjs).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
                    });
                });
            });

The '$' is for jQuery, not PrototypeJS, btw.
When the spec has the ".not" in it's expect line, I the the weird output (beginning with '-', ending with three dots (...) and no line break). I I omit the ".not", I get a proper valid result output with the green checkmark. The mentioned 'weird' output is shown whenever this spec fails.