Testing

Testing

Unit Testing with Karma

TODO

End-to-End (E2E) Testing with Protractor

Protractor wraps around WebDriverJS, which is a javascript binding for Selenium-Webdriver.

Selenium-Webdriver is a browser automation framework. Tests are written with the WebDriver API, which communicates with a Selenium server to control the browser under test. - Protractor Getting Started Guide

Therefore, you need to first download and install Selenium standalone server. If you successfully performed npm install, you will have ./node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager. You can download and install Selenium standalone server by the following command:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager update

From then on, you can start the server via:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager start

You need to have the Selenium server running before running E2E tests. Once the Selenium server is running, you should also start the application server (in another tab) because your tests will run against it:

$ grunt

While the application server is running, open another tab and run e2e tests using Protractor.

$ grunt test

Enjoy watching your tests running inside a real browser (Chrome by default). If you'd like to change Protractor configuration, check out config/test/protractor-e2e.conf.js.

** TODO: Simplify the above steps so that it can be all done using one grunt command. **