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assert.deepEqual is not strict

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Reproduce the shown assert.deepEqual case, then locate the assert.deepEqual implementation in the repository. Compare its behavior with node-deep-equal using opts.strict; done means ['32'] and [32] are no longer considered equal and the relevant test coverage passes.

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Description

// doesn't throw
assert.deepEqual(['32'], [32]);

Look into switching to https://github.com/substack/node-deep-equal with opts.strict

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