[BUG] assertVisible passing for off-screen text

[sircharleswatson]

Description

I am running a basic test to familiarize myself with maestro (and maestro-runner) and am finding that maestro will correctly fail on assertVisible for text that I have in a carousel, but maestro-runner is passing even though the text is not visible.

Steps to Reproduce

1. React native app with a basic welcome screen containing a carousel with 3 slides
2. run maestro-runner with flow file below
3. It should fail

Expected Behavior

When I have the swipe command commented out, I expect assertVisible: "Follow .*" to fail

Actual Behavior

With swipe commented out, assertVisible: "Follow .*" is passing

Environment

• OS: macOS 15.3.1
• Go version: 1.26.0
• maestro-runner version: 1.0.9
• Executor: default
• Device/Simulator: iPhone 16 Simulator

Flow File

- launchApp
- assertVisible: <welcome screen text>
- assertVisible: <welcome screen button>
- assertVisible: <welcome screen second button>
# - swipe:
#     direction: LEFT
- assertVisible: "Follow .*"

Error Output

no error output

Additional Context

N/A

[omnarayan]

@sircharleswatson — Thank you for reporting this! we ll work on it

[sircharleswatson]

@omnarayan just want to add, i've been playing with this some more and figured out that if I change assertVisible to look for testID for the off-screen component, it fails as expected when the - swipe: is removed.

[omnarayan]

Thanks for reporting this @sircharleswatson! Fixed in v1.1.0 — off-screen elements are now filtered from page source searches. Update with:

curl -fsSL https://open.devicelab.dev/maestro-runner/install | bash

Please reopen if the issue persists.