End to end testing with Protractor (End to end testing with Protractor)
End to end testing with Protractor
Lessons learned about e2e test automation
About the Book
The idea of writing this book came as a way to gathering a collection of learnings during my career using the Protractor framework, to serve as a source of research for professionals that already use the tool or professionals and students that are interested in learning.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Preface
- By Carmen Popoviciu
- By Stefan Teixeira
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Introduction
- What is Protractor?
- Pre-requirements to start
- Basic configurations
- Writing the first test
- Running the first test
- The importance of test results
- The AAA standard (Arrange, Act, Assert)
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Good practices
- General rules
- Project structure
- Locators strategies
- Page Objects
- Test suites
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Page Objects
- Refactoring tests to use Page Objects
- Another example of Page Objects
- Creating and using wrapper Page Objects
- Helpers
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Useful node modules
- jasmine-spec-reporter
- protractor-jasmine2-html-reporter
- shortid
- node-uuid
- fs
- browserstack-local
- faker.js
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Actions and verifications
- Actions
- Verifications
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Visual review testing
- Integrating VisualReview with Protractor
- What to test and what not to test with Visual Review
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Cloud testing
- BrowserStack
- SauceLabs
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Continuous integration
- E2e testing in the continuous integration process
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Mobile testing
- Redefining the browser’s size
- Simulating a mobile device into the browser
- Using mobile devices simulators in the cloud
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ECMAScript 2015
- Configuration file in ES2015
- Test files (spec files) in ES2015
- Page Objects and Helpers in ES2015
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Advanced configurations
- directConnect - Using the browser’s own webdriver
- framework - Defining a base framework to write tests
- shardTestFiles - Running tests in parallel
- suites - Test suites
- beforeLaunch - Before any environment configuration
- onPrepare - Before running tests
- onComplete - As soon as tests are finished
- afterLaunch - After running tests
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The software test creative process
- Defining test cases
- Evolving the test suite
- Organizing the test project for a evolving maintenance
- Evolving even more
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Useful tips
- Test structure generator
- Jasmine facilities
- Debugging tests
- Testing non-AngularJS applications
- Tips for demos
- Overwriting configurations via command line
- Going further
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