Page Load behaviour differences Protractor/Manual

[SmaugRon]

We have a small hotel booking app for which I have written a simple automated smoke-test based on an E2E flow.

Select hotel > Choose Start Date > Choose End Date > Select no of Adults > Select No of Children > Enter Promo code > Click Search. From the offered hotels, click Submit to return room availability and costs.

Works fine when run by a user and also fine under an automated test UNTIL the last Submit action - the results page frame loads, then there is a 'wait' wheel followed by an error message stating the hotel's availability is not available!

1. I've checked that the url being posted contains the same data when run manually and automatically - i.e the enquiry data mentioned above...it's correct.
2. I've asked my dev colleagues if there's something different between the two ways of sending the data post-button press - no.
3. I've tried:

• Browser.wait - of many different times.

• Expected Condition (wait for the page to load)

• Var V = element(by.xpath...........
  V.submit
  ..that generates no element found on the form (I don't think the page in question IS a form so I'm not surprised!

Below is the last straw clutched!
it('should check when new page is loaded', function () { button.click().then(function (){ browser.getCurrentUrl(); browser.getTitle().then(function (title) { expect(title).toEqual('https://obmng.dbm.guestline.net/availability?hotel=OBMNG4&arrival='); return expect(newElement.isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy();

Has anyone got anything I could try or perhaps can explain this behaviour difference?

Thanks
David

Bug report

• Node Version: 5.6.0
• Protractor Version: 5.4.0
• Angular Version: ``2.0.0-beta.21
• Browser(s): ``Chrome
• Operating System and Version `` Win 7 and OSX
• Your protractor configuration file
• A relevant example test
• Output from running the test
• Steps to reproduce the bug
• The URL you are running your tests against (if relevant)

[SmaugRon]

NB Tried on FireFox too...same error. BUT getting a console error that might be a clue?

- Failed: java.net.SocketException: Software caused connection abort: recv failed

[ben-yocum]

it('should check when new page is loaded', function () { 
    button.click().then(function () { 
        browser.getCurrentUrl(); 
        browser.getTitle().then(function (title) { 
            expect(title).toEqual('https://obmng.dbm.guestline.net/availability?hotel=OBMNG4&arrival='); 
            return expect(newElement.isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy();

Could you post a more complete code sample? Also, be careful with Github's formatting. It removed all the whitespace from your snippet.

A few things about this sample stand out to me:

• Why do you call browser.getCurrentUrl(); but not wait for the promise to resolve and do nothing with the result?
• You also seem to have mixed up browser.getCurrentUrl(); and browser.getTitle()?
• Why do you return the second expect?

I wouldn't expect any of this to cause the error you've described so long as you haven't disabled selenium's promise manager (SELENIUM_PROMISE_MANAGER: false), but perhaps your error is caused by a similar issue elsewhere in your test.