AngularJS Protractor Error In Tutorial
In the tutorials if you attempt to execute npm run protractor to do end to end testing you may get an error on
windows that states that that it cannot find the chromedriver.exe file.
Two issues are likely to present itself
1.
Chromedriver.exe cannot be found
2.
Selenium server timeout
The issue I ran into that the chromedriver_2.16.zip file was downloaded but the chromedriver.exe was missing from the node_modules/protractor/selenium folder.
To correct this issue the do the following:
1.
Set chromeonly
setting in package.json that is
located in the node_modules/protractor
folder.
2. Execute
the following commands
a. NPM install webdriver-manager
b. NPM uninstall protractor
c. NPM install protractor
d. NPM install
3.
The selenium folder is now in the
webdriver-manager folder so copy this folder to the node_modules/protractor
folder. It should have three files chromedriver.exe,
chromedriver_2.16.zip, and selenium-server-standalone-2.46.0.jar
After doing this attempt to execute the end to end test by
first starting the web server via npm
start command in one command window.
In another command window run npm
run protractor if it produces and error stating “there’s no selenium server
jar at the specified location. Do you have the correct version?” perform the
following steps.
1.
Open the package.json
file located in node_modules/protractor/
folder.
2.
Change all entries in the file for selenium-webdriver and selenium to the correct version number
which should be 2.46.0 (in my file it was code line 19 and 61)
3.
Then start the web server via npm start
4.
Run the end to end tests via npm run protractor
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