Codeception
i-click fails with html entity present...
Seems like this is an aggressive regex type deal, but having an html entity inlined inside a button causes an acceptance test fail. Doesn't seem to matter what the entity is. It seems a blank space is needed to cause the entity to be ignored.
// $i->click('sign-in');
// this fails...
<button type="submit">
<span class="fa fa-user"></span> sign-in
</button>
// this fails, variations...
<span class="fa fa-user"></span>sign-in
<span class="fa fa-user"> </span>sign-in
//...and this doesn't...
<span class="fa fa-user"></span>sign-in
<span class="fa fa-user"></span> sign-in
<span class="fa fa-user"></span>sign-in
No biggie, but was a bit of a surprise trying to figure out why the test failed.
I would suggest to try strict locators instead, see: http://phptest.club/t/regarding-filling-fields-and-clicking-buttons/569/2?u=javi_gomez
$I->click(['xpath' => "//button[contains(text(), 'sign-in')]"]);
Alternatively you can improve the markup of the application so you can easily locate the element. See best practice described at: https://docs.joomla.org/Testing_Joomla_Extensions_with_Codeception#Write_complex_locator_VS._modifying_the_output_of_the_tested_website
From my personal view I don't think that ->click codeception function heuristics are weak, I think that is just can't do it perfectly. Anyway all these heuristics affects performance. I think is much more better to write good locators to having performant and effective tests.
