Angular - Testing and Debugging with Protractor

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Debugging Protractor Tests

Prepare your Protractor Code

Add debugger keyword in your protractor code – Code execution will stop here !

  fit('should run the Global Goals View and test Vacation Semester Feature', () => {
    const waitTimeout = 400;
    waitByIdAndClick('nav-global-goals-button');
    validateHeadline('Meine Ziele');
    debugger;
    ...

Setup Debug Session

Action	Action Details
Start Protractor with —inspect-brk switch	$ node –inspect-brk node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor e2e/protractor.conf.js
Run Chrome Brower with URL: chrome://inspect/#devices Press Inspect Button to start Debug Session	“;[/insert_php]
Debugger gets started and stops execution before running ANY Protractor Tests	“;[/insert_php]
Press F8 to stop code execution on loacation marked by debugger keyword	“;[/insert_php]

Reference

Helper Function for running Protractor Tests

Calling Ajax to reset data before each run

import {HttpClient} from 'protractor-http-client';
..
 beforeEach(() => {
    const http = new HttpClient('http://localhost:8080/');
    http.failOnError = true;
    const resetResponse = http.get('/pythia/api/data/resetdata/test3');
    expect(resetResponse.statusCode).toEqual(200);
...

Scroll Down Browser Window

 const scrollDown = function () {
    browser.executeScript('window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);').then(function () {
      browser.sleep(500);
    });
  };

Closing an External Browser Window

  const closeBrowserWindow = function () {
    // Close the external browser window
    browser.getAllWindowHandles().then((handles) => {
      browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[1]);
      browser.driver.close();
      browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[0]);
    });
  };