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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"test_runner: JUnit report is truncated when a failed test triggers empty context.diagnostic()","articleBody":"### Version\n\nv24.15.0\n\n### Platform\n\n```text\nMicrosoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64\n```\n\n### Subsystem\n\ntest_runner\n\n### What steps will reproduce the bug?\n\n1. Create any test file, like `junit.test.mjs`:\n\n    ```js\n    import { fail } from 'node:assert/strict';\n    import { test } from 'node:test';\n\n    await test('testName', (context) => {\n      context.diagnostic('');\n      fail();\n    });\n    ```\n2. Run the test via console\n\n    ```powershell\n    node --test --test-reporter=junit \".\\junit.test.mjs\"\n    ```\n\n### How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?\n\nAlways.\n\n### What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?\n\nThe JUnit reporter should gracefully handle empty diagnostic messages (e.g., `context.diagnostic('')`). It should format them as empty XML comments (`\u003c!--  -->`) without throwing errors, aligning with the default `spec` reporter which successfully prints empty lines for empty diagnostic events. The generated XML report must remain valid and fully closed with the `\u003c/testsuites>` tag.\n\n\n### What do you see instead?\n\nWhen a failed test contains an empty diagnostic call, the internal XML formatter (`treeToXML`) evaluates the falsy empty string `if (comment)` as false and mistakenly tries to read `ObjectEntries(attrs)` from an undefined object. This causes an unhandled `TypeError` inside the stream generator, silently destroying the stream and leaving the JUnit XML report truncated and broken.\n\nStack trace:\n\n```text\nTypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object\n    at entries (\u003canonymous>)\n    at treeToXML (node:internal/test_runner/reporter/junit:46:7)\n    at junitReporter (node:internal/test_runner/reporter/junit:160:11)\n```\n\n\n### Additional information\n\n_No response_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/AlexCannonball","@type":"Person","name":"AlexCannonball"},"datePublished":"2026-08-17T18:25:41Z","url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/65355"}