.toBeGreaterThan(-1)

[JeffreyArts]

I am having issues with setting a cookie, and test if the cookie is set properly.
When I set a Cookie 'foo' with the value 'bar' and I check the test if it is created succesfully by the following condition:

document.cookie.indexOf('foo=bar')

It returns 0, since the cookie will be added at the beginning of the string. I see that that is correct by the following statement:

expect(document.cookie.indexOf('foo=bar')).toBeGreaterThan(0);

This ofcourse will throw an error (Error: Expected 0 to be greater than 0). Which is ok, but whenever I try to update this test, like so:

expect(document.cookie.indexOf('foo=bar')).toBeGreaterThan(-1);

It gives me a timeout error (Error: timeout of 2000ms exceeded). Could you please explain me, why that is?

[mjackson]

This almost certainly has nothing to do with expect since the call to toBeGreaterThan will run synchronously. It's probably something with your mocha setup.

[rstacruz]

What likely happened is that the expectation passed, therefore making the test continue on:

it('doesnt work', function (next) {
  expect(document.cookie.indexOf('foo=bar')).toBeGreaterThan(0)
  // (!) error raised, test aborted
})


it('works', function (next) {
  expect(document.cookie.indexOf('foo=bar')).toBeGreaterThan(-1)
  // expectation passed, everything is peachy, but since no one is
  // calling `next()` mocha is left hanging
})