Running protractor tests on codeship #testing #browser #selenium

protractor.conf.js

exports.config = {
  // The address of a running selenium server.
  seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',

  // Capabilities to be passed to the webdriver instance.
  capabilities: {
   // 'browserName': 'internet explorer', - special installation needed
   // 'version':'10',
   'browserName': 'chrome',
   //'browserName': 'firefox'
  },
  baseUrl:'http://127.0.0.1:8080',
  // Spec patterns are relative to the current working directly when
  // protractor is called.
  specs: ['test/protractor/protractor.js'],

  // Options to be passed to Jasmine-node.
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    showColors: true,
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
  }
};

setup

# -------------------------------------------
# 1. HTML website separate from API
# 2. HTML website is static HTML
# 3. API is mocked
# -------------------------------------------

# Install simple http server and protractor
npm install -g http-server protractor

# Download and install selenium webdrivers
webdriver-manager update

# Run web driver in background, keeping in mind it takes a few seconds to become responsive
nohup bash -c "webdriver-manager start 2>&1 &" && sleep 9

# Run local website, my website is contained within the ./app folder
http-server app > /dev/null &

# Run protractor tests
protractor protractor.conf.js

This was working for me for a while but all the sudden i started getting an error on the test step. Not really sure what changed. Is anybody else having an issue?

[launcher] Process exited with error code 1

/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:126
throw e;
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token )
at goog.loadModuleFromSource_ (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:1123:19)
at Object.goog.loadModule (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:1085:46)
at /home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1:6
at Object.Context.closure.goog.retrieveAndExecModule_ (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/_base.js:135:8)
at <anonymous>:1:6
at Context.closure.closure.vm.createContext.CLOSURE_IMPORT_SCRIPT (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/_base.js:104:12)
at Object.goog.importScript_ (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:879:9)
at Object.goog.importModule_ (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:900:14)
at Object.goog.writeScripts_ (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:1323:16)
at Object.goog.require (/home/rof/.nvm/v0.10.40/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:663:14)

same as @pdsullivan here, even when using sause labs server instead of localhost...

just found that there is BREAKING CHANGE: 1) Users will no longer be able to use node versions <4. 2
http://stackoverflow.com/a/33835026/1109957,

just updated node to 4.2.1 via nvm install 4.2.1 and all working again.
https://codeship.com/documentation/languages/nodejs/

For those of you running a Rails app, substitute this line:

# Run local website, my website is contained within the ./app folder

http-server app > /dev/null &

with this:
nohup bash -c "rails s &"

This will start the rails server in the background and continue to the next task.