behat test failures on wordpress + composer sites

[sugaroverflow]

@jrastaban and I ran into this issue today where a behat test was failing because of a new authentication window in WordPress asking to confirm an email address. Opening this issue to look into this further and possibly provide documentation to help users who might run into this.

[sugaroverflow]

related links

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-3-to-introduce-new-admin-email-verification-screen
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-admin-email-verification/

[sugaroverflow]

from @jrastaban

Looking at the error URLs. it now makes sense
https://dev-****************.pantheonsite.io/wp/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdev-****************.pantheonsite.io%2F&action=confirm_admin_email&wp_lang=en_US

[sugaroverflow]

the WP ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46349

[jrastaban]

@sugaroverflow, Thanks again for helping me debug this 🙌

Using the advice linked above I put together a small plugin to inject the code to disable the notifications. Once I added and activated this, the behat builds started working again.

A preferred solution would be one that works with notifications still enabled so I'll do some more digging.

[stevector]

This issue could probably be worked around with a minor tweak to the .feature file that specifies the failing test. If necessary, it'd be easy enough to add a custom step or override.