Why does Angular use Selenium WebDriver to test its own sites instead of Scenario Runner?

[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

I've been struggling to find a "perfect" solution for real E2E testing Angular and had problems

- There seems to be no good published way (other than waiting on a specific element) to wait for the page to finish rendering before making assertions with Selenium

- On the other hand, no one talks about how to do real (against a live, local server) E2E testing with the scenario runner and in this case, how to control the consistency of the data when a test starts

In my searches, trying to find E2E scenario best practices, I thought I'd see how Angular tests their own web properties.

To my amazement, I found that they use WebDriver! e.g. https://github.com/angular/angular-sites/blob/master/test/docs.angularjs.org.spec.js

I'm wondering - what drove this decision?

Thanks

Georgios

[Joshwa Fugett]

As part of the 1.2 release angular is switching out the e2e test runner. Its already available on github. Unfortunately im not at my computer and cant remember the name, but theres a new video posted by the angular team that talks about the 1.2 changes.

[Kijana Woodard]

Thanks. New here. Didn't see anything obvious on google. What the rough target date for 1.2? Weeks/Months/Q1 2014?

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Joshwa Fugett <jfug...@gmail.com> wrote:

As part of the 1.2 release angular is switching out the e2e test runner. Its already available on github. Unfortunately im not at my computer and cant remember the name, but theres a new video posted by the angular team that talks about the 1.2 changes.

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[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

Oh wow, I guess that solves my dilemma! 

I haven't watched the whole thing but I'm guessing it's a reference to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13qDdJDHp8

+1 on a rough (weeks/months/next year) ETA

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:38:53 -0500
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[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

By the way, how is this now supported in Karma?

> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:21:14 -0700
> From: jfug...@gmail.com
> To: ang...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [AngularJS] Why does Angular use Selenium WebDriver to test its own sites instead of Scenario Runner?

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> As part of the 1.2 release angular is switching out the e2e test runner. Its already available on github. Unfortunately im not at my computer and cant remember the name, but theres a new video posted by the angular team that talks about the 1.2 changes.
>

[Ryan Zec]

For those interested, the new E2E test runner is here : 

https://github.com/juliemr/protractor

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[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

Does this work with Karma? Any pointers on how to configure it?

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:11:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [AngularJS] Why does Angular use Selenium WebDriver to test its own sites instead of Scenario Runner?
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[Joshwa Fugett]

You should be able to use protractor with karma as karma just runs the tests that you write.

I know there is setup for the selenium server but I haven't tried it it so I'm afraid I can't give much more detail than that.

I'm hoping to give it a run over the weekend, and will post my results back if I make it to it, if anybody else has given it a test run yet hopefully they'll post their experience with it here.

[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

It doesnt look like Karma is gonna be able to do protractor - see https://github.com/juliemr/protractor/issues/9

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:49:19 -0700
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[Brandon R]

It is incredibly frustrating, the need to keep changing stuff. I get wanting to improve things, but with every release the entire suite changes. Ugg!

[Georgios Diamantopoulos]

I'll agree it's frustrating but also necessary - protractor is a much better direction than angular scenario was - I'm sure it's a case of "it seemed like a good idea at the time"

I've opted out of doing E2E testing JS though and going with Selenium from C#

Georgios

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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 05:38:46 -0800
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Subject: [AngularJS] Re: Why does Angular use Selenium WebDriver to test its own sites instead of Scenario Runner?

[flav...@gmail.com]

I realize this is an older thread, but I had found it in the search resluts.  It is also worth noting on https://www.exratione.com/2013/12/angularjs-headless-end-to-end-testing-with-protractor-and-selenium/

            Either way, this framework for end to end testing is now obsolete and is in the process of being replaced by Protractor. So don't put any time into it.

"this framework" referencing karma.

[Jeff Hubbard]

Karma is still used for sure--it's the unit test runner. Protractor is replacing Angular Scenario Runner, which is the end-to-end browser testing tool.