Cucumber: Cleanly finding visible text

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I’m writing Cucumber features and step definitions for an app and I’d like to assert if there is some particular text on the page. As an example, I would like to find the visible text "section".

Currently I’m using something like:

...getSource().then(function(source){
  source.should.contain(expectedText);
});

This doesn’t work when a section element is present on the page.

Ideally I would also like to restrict the scope of this search to within a particular selector like .random-container, although this is less important.

Capybara’s way of handling this is awesome, so anything that feels similar would be ideal:

within '.random-container' do 
  should have_content 'section'
end

What is the best way to assert visible text, while reducing possible collisions?

DISCLAIMER: I come from a Rails background.

2

this.client.getText('.random-container').should.eventually.contain('section') I think.

3

You should also check the webdriverIO api:

4

Woah, I’m using so much code from both of you guys. Thanks for the help and for being so active in the community.

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