"cypress run" fails but "cypress open" works

[darthmeme]

Current behavior:

The issue here is with trying to get a label that contains some specific text.
cy.get('label').contains('Select 2')

When running cypress open locally and running my e2e tests, everything passes.

On the other hand, when running the same specs in CircleCI, it fails. I can reproduce this locally when running cypress run

Desired behavior:

cypress run should be passing

Test code to reproduce

https://github.com/darthmeme/cypress-test

In this example, I'm using Chrome.
After installing dependencies:

• Start the app locally with yarn serve
• In another terminal, run yarn cy:open (uses cypress open) and choose Chrome. Run all specs and they should all pass

Issue occurs here:

• Run yarn cy:run (uses cypress run and automatically uses Chrome), and the specs will fail

Any insights or help will be greatly appreciated!

Versions

Cypress: 3.8.3 (also reproduced on 4.1.0
OS: macOS Catalina
Browser: Chrome

[jennifer-shehane]

Thank you for providing a reproducible example! I can recreate this. I went back to Cypress 3.4.1 to see if this still reproduces - it's still the same error there.

Seems to not be finding the labels during cypress run.

cypress open in Chrome

cypress run in Chrome

I was able to get this to work by using cy.contains('label', 'Select 2') instead of cy.get('label').contains('Select 2').

I think this may be a duplicate of this issue: #2640 and there just happens to be some variability in the runtime between cypress open and cypress run - where perhaps the label is rerendering, so is gone by the time the .contains() runs.

[darthmeme]

Hey @jennifer-shehane - your solution works for me too. Thanks a ton!

I'll close this issue for now and follow #2640 - thanks for your help 😄