diff --git a/test/parallel/test-assert-fail.js b/test/parallel/test-assert-fail.js
index 12cff99e66c88d..efa48cc215cfdb 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-assert-fail.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-assert-fail.js
@@ -67,5 +67,5 @@ common.expectsError(() => {
 // The stackFrameFunction should exclude the foo frame
 assert.throws(
   function foo() { assert.fail('first', 'second', 'message', '!==', foo); },
-  (err) => !/foo/m.test(err.stack)
+  (err) => !/^\s*at\sfoo\b/m.test(err.stack)
 );