stalet/mocha-typescript-testproject

Project that verifies strange behaviour

Test project to reproduce issue in mocha

Reproducing bug described in mochajs/mocha#5074

Environment

This is expected to fail, as it is a test project to reproduce an issue. See the logs of the github action below.

Steps to reproduce

run pnpm install and then pnpm test

Expected behavior

Tests should fail with error "TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value"

Actual behavior

prints out:

> mocha

mocha inspect [spec..]

Run tests with Mocha

Rules & Behavior
      --allow-uncaught       Allow uncaught errors to propagate        [boolean]
  -A, --async-only           Require all tests to use a callback (async) or
                             return a Promise                          [boolean]
  -b, --bail                 Abort ("bail") after first test failure   [boolean]
      --check-leaks          Check for global variable leaks           [boolean]
      --delay                Delay initial execution of root suite     [boolean]
      --dry-run              Report tests without executing them       [boolean]
      --exit                 Force Mocha to quit after tests complete  [boolean]
      --fail-zero            Fail test run if no test(s) encountered   [boolean]
      --forbid-only          Fail if exclusive test(s) encountered     [boolean]
      --forbid-pending       Fail if pending test(s) encountered       [boolean]
      --global, --globals    List of allowed global variables            [array]
  -j, --jobs                 Number of concurrent jobs for --parallel; use 1 to
                             run in serial
                                   [number] [default: (number of CPU cores - 1)]
  -p, --parallel             Run tests in parallel                     [boolean]
      --retries              Retry failed tests this many times         [number]
  -s, --slow                 Specify "slow" test threshold (in milliseconds)
                                                          [string] [default: 75]
  -t, --timeout, --timeouts  Specify test timeout threshold (in milliseconds)
                                                        [string] [default: 2000]
  -u, --ui                   Specify user interface    [string] [default: "bdd"]

Reporting & Output
  -c, --color, --colors                     Force-enable color output  [boolean]
      --diff                                Show diff on failure
                                                       [boolean] [default: true]
      --full-trace                          Display full stack traces  [boolean]
      --inline-diffs                        Display actual/expected differences
                                            inline within each string  [boolean]
  -R, --reporter                            Specify reporter to use
                                                      [string] [default: "spec"]
  -O, --reporter-option,                    Reporter-specific options
  --reporter-options                        (<k=v,[k1=v1,..]>)           [array]

Configuration
      --config       Path to config file   [string] [default: (nearest rc file)]
  -n, --node-option  Node or V8 option (no leading "--")                 [array]
      --package      Path to package.json for config                    [string]

File Handling
      --extension          File extension(s) to load
                                           [array] [default: ["js","cjs","mjs"]]
      --file               Specify file(s) to be loaded prior to root suite
                           execution                   [array] [default: (none)]
      --ignore, --exclude  Ignore file(s) or glob pattern(s)
                                                       [array] [default: (none)]
      --recursive          Look for tests in subdirectories            [boolean]
  -r, --require            Require module              [array] [default: (none)]
  -S, --sort               Sort test files                             [boolean]
  -w, --watch              Watch files in the current working directory for
                           changes                                     [boolean]
      --watch-files        List of paths or globs to watch               [array]
      --watch-ignore       List of paths or globs to exclude from watching
                                      [array] [default: ["node_modules",".git"]]

Test Filters
  -f, --fgrep   Only run tests containing this string                   [string]
  -g, --grep    Only run tests matching this string or regexp           [string]
  -i, --invert  Inverts --grep and --fgrep matches                     [boolean]

Positional Arguments
  spec  One or more files, directories, or globs to test
                                                     [array] [default: ["test"]]

Other Options
  -h, --help             Show usage information & exit                 [boolean]
  -V, --version          Show version number & exit                    [boolean]
      --list-interfaces  List built-in user interfaces & exit          [boolean]
      --list-reporters   List built-in reporters & exit                [boolean]

✖ ERROR: null
 ELIFECYCLE  Test failed. See above for more details.

Debugging test

Run the target test:with-debug to see the debug log. It will print out:

  mocha:cli:cli caught error sometime before command handler: TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value
  mocha:cli:cli     at exports.handler (/home/stalet/dev/test/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/mocha/lib/cli/run.js:372:65) +674ms