Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues and didn't find mine.
Steps to reproduce
The minimal repro can be either downloaded here (.app built for the simulator, just extract the tar and drag it into an iOS simulator), or it can be built with the following steps:
- Clone the repo at https://github.com/yolpsoftware/maestro-bugtest (branch master)
- Open a terminal inside it and run npm install
- Then npx expo run:ios --device, this will create a build for the simulator
- When it asks on which simulator device you want to run it, choose one, don't choose an actual device.
- If it asks for a development account, provide one.
Then, start Maestro Studio. The bug is reproducible in Maestro Studio, but it is also happening when testing with Maestro.
Actual results
We want to click on the first item in the list:
Maestro Studio tells me that I can do that with
tapOn: Capisce? - Do you understand? 🇮🇹 Italian Words not yet
This works great, and it confirms that the UI should be okay for Maestro.
However, when I replace the last word by a .* regular expression, the whole thing stops working:
tapOn: Capisce? - Do you understand? 🇮🇹 Italian Words not .*
So I thought, maybe Maestro now considers this to be a Regex - which makes the question marks behave differently. That would make sense. So I replaced them by
tapOn: Capisce\? - Do you understand\? 🇮🇹 Italian Words not .*
or
tapOn: Capisce. - Do you understand. 🇮🇹 Italian Words not .*
But now Maestro taps on one of the "dummy" elements, even though there is no matching text there.
Expected results
Maestro should tap on the element with matching text.
Also, from the docs it's not clear when Maestro is using a regex and when not.
About app
This is a React Native app using Expo. It uses the latest frameworks:
"expo": "~52.0.46",
"react-native": "0.76.9",
About environment
Apple M4 Pro (arm64), Macbook Pro, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1.
openjdk version "21.0.7" 2025-04-15 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-21.0.7+6 (build 21.0.7+6-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-21.0.7+6 (build 21.0.7+6-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)
Logs
Logs
this is done entirely in Maestro Studio, so no logs here
Maestro version
1.40.0
How did you install Maestro?
install script (https://get.maestro.mobile.dev)
Anything else?
No response