Phpunit Error - failed asserting node denoted by

Question

I am using PHPUnit 3.5.x along with Zend 1.10 I have a line in my IndexControllerTestCase.php

$this->assertXpathContentContains("id('message')", "test message");

this shows an error

1) IndexControllerTest::testIndexWithMessageAction
Failed asserting node denoted by id CONTAINS content "test message"

C:\xampp\htdocs\hive\library\Zend\Test\PHPUnit\Constraint\DomQuery.php:256
C:\xampp\htdocs\hive\library\Zend\Test\PHPUnit\ControllerTestCase.php:516
C:\xampp\htdocs\testsample\tests\application\controllers\IndexControllerTest.php
:14

Any idea why this error pops up? Any help would really be appreciated

Answer 1

I'm no XPath wizard, but in our tests we use something like the following to look for the <div> with the id of message.

$this->assertXpathContentContains('//div[@id="message"]', "test message");