E2E testing an Ionic App with Protractor and Appium

This is a small Ionic test project (tabs template) with e2e testing enabled. Helpful guides/articles:

• https://blog.softwareforen.de/2018/05/ui-tests-fuer-ionic-3-mit-protractor-und-appium/
• https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
• http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/server-args/

usage

(tested on Android)

0. install ionic and cordova globally if not already done
1. clone repo & npm i
2. if needed install appium-doctor to verify appium installation
3. try ionic serve to verify our app is running fine (and exit afterwards)
4. run app on emulator or attached device
5. be sure to download matching chromedriver. I did this by installing the correct version of chromedriver npm package with npm i chromedriver@<version> --save-dev
6. start appium with appium --chromedriver-executable <path to executable> (or start without argument to take latest chromedriver bundled with appium)
7. in another console window start e2e test with .\node_modules\.bin\protractor .\protractor.android.conf.js