e2e tests not run with PhantomJS

[tamascsaba]

Workflow:

npm run webdriver-start &
npm run express &
npm run e2e

Console only show, tests does not run

Using the selenium server at http://localhost:4444/wd/hub
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver

I modifyed protractor.conf.js

exports.config = {
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080/',
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'phantomjs',
    'phantomjs.binary.path': require('phantomjs').path,
    'phantomjs.ghostdriver.cli.args': ['--loglevel=INFO']
  },
  seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
};

[PatrickJS]

is this needed after you made your PR? if it's still needed can you make another PR?

[dotcs]

After #79 has been merged this issue should be fixed. For me npm run e2e runs without any problems now.

[PatrickJS]

awesome thanks!

[dotcs]

Sorry @gdi2290, I think you have to reopen this issue. I have had Chrome in my setup, not phantomjs. The latter indeed makes problems. Unfortunately I have no quick solution, so we have to start over.

[tamascsaba]

@dotcs what promles makes PhantomJS Unit tests run?

[dotcs]

Using the "recommended" config below, I could get the first E2E test to work (which checks the title of the page), but the following tests fail because it seems that PhantomJS does not wait for Angular before running the tests which is why they fail with an InvalidElementStateError [1].

capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'phantomjs',

    /*
     * Can be used to specify the phantomjs binary path.
     * This can generally be ommitted if you installed phantomjs globally.
     */
    'phantomjs.binary.path': require('phantomjs').path,

    /*
     * Command line args to pass to ghostdriver, phantomjs's browser driver.
     * See https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver#faq
     */
    'phantomjs.ghostdriver.cli.args': ['--loglevel=DEBUG']
  },

The linked document absolve also states:

Note: We recommend against using PhantomJS for tests with Protractor. There are many reported issues with PhantomJS crashing and behaving differently from real browsers.

So perhaps we should not use PhantomJS at all for E2E tests.

[1]: Some details on the InvalidElementStateError:

InvalidElementStateError: {"errorMessage":"SYNTAX_ERR: DOM Exception 12","request":{"headers":{"Accept-Encoding":"gzip,deflate","Connection":"Keep-Alive","Content-Length":"59","Content-Type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","Host":"localhost:20091","User-Agent":"Apache-HttpClient/4.4.1 (Java/1.8.0_66)"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"using\":\"css selector\",\"value\":\"* /deep/ app /deep/ main\"}","url":"/elements","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"elements","directory":"/","path":"/elements","relative":"/elements","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/elements","queryKey":{},"chunks":["elements"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/87a8c3c0-7896-11e5-8b2b-f10d392379d5/elements"}}
Build info: version: '2.47.1', revision: '411b314', time: '2015-07-30 03:03:16'

[PatrickJS]

If the issue is still valid please open a PR