Before moving to the main content, we should know what is headless term.
What is headless browser?Headless browser is like a normal web browser. But it does not have a GUI(Graphical User Interface). Means, you can not see browser on the screen. But it runs in the background. Other than that the headless behaves the same as the traditional » Continue Reading.
Protractor is designed for interacting with a web page like a real user. It is specifically designed for automating AngularJS web applications. So, protractor should have some advantages over other automation tools when it comes to automating AngularJs web applications. I am going to show you one of such advantages that protractor posses. Note: Here i am not » Continue Reading.
Generally we need screenshot of the browser where the protractor got failed. It would increase our chances to quickly figure out the issue before getting into the code debug.
How to take a screen shot in protractor?Below is the code to take a screenshot using protractor.
browser.takeScreenshot().then(function (png) { var dirPath = './reports/screenshots/'; if (!fs.existsSync('./reports')) » Continue Reading.There are 3 types of waits available in selenium webdriver.
When it comes to automation, data provider is an approach to pass test data to the automation tests. Each and every automation tool has it’s own way of providing test data to the automation When we take TestNG framework, it has @DataProvider annotation which will help to pass test data to the automation test.
Why we » Continue Reading.
Before going to seen an example, let us know about blocking proxy.
What is blocking-poxy?Blocking proxy is a tool which provides some additional functionality for the selenium based automation tools before hitting selenium server. Blocking proxy sits in between our automation code and the selenium server. We can use blocking-poxy to set some barriers to » Continue Reading.
Selenium has the ability to get the resource load times of a web page. Resources means the data that is getting loaded into the webpage from backend http calls.
We can fetch the request and responses of all http calls which are being made as part of page rendering. Selenium is providing access to http calls in the form of » Continue Reading.
Protractor has two functions to execute javascript code in tests.
We’ve explained about executeScript with examples here.
Now, Lets know about executeAsyncScript.
browser.executeAsyncScript(Asnynchronousjavascript, args…)Basically protractor provided this method to execute any asynchronous javascript code. We need to use this method to execute a javascript which has ajax calls or timeouts in it.
executeAsyncScript takes one » Continue Reading.
Most of the time we interact with web elements using selenium internal methods like click, sendKeys, select etc..
Why we need javascript executor? Selenium is written in the way that it should not interact hidden elements on the webpage. Real user can not interact with the hidden elements in the web page so selenium guys are also not allowing » Continue Reading.
There are many element location strategies available in protractor. Click here to know about element locators in protractor.
by.js is one more element locating strategy available in protractor. We need to pass javascript code as a string or as a function to by.js to get single/multiple element(s).
Pass javascript code as a string: