SERVER-8748: make test more robust

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/jstests/replsets/stepdown_wrt_electable.js b/jstests/replsets/stepdown_wrt_electable.js
index e47b6ab09c6..3d21a74f67c 100644
--- a/jstests/replsets/stepdown_wrt_electable.js
+++ b/jstests/replsets/stepdown_wrt_electable.js
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ var waitfunc = startParallelShell(command);
 sleep(100) // startParallelShell doesn't block
 
 // check that the old primary is no longer master
-var isMaster = new Mongo(firstPrimary).getDB("a").isMaster();
-printjson(isMaster);
-assert(!(isMaster.ismaster), "is master")
-
+assert.soon( function() {
+    var isMaster = new Mongo(firstPrimary).getDB("a").isMaster();
+    printjson(isMaster);
+    return !(isMaster.ismaster);
+  }, "they shouldn't be master, but are")
 // stop
 replTest.stopSet();