Runner should be separated into CLI and Node Module about protractor HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi,

First of all great work on Protractor. Still fresh but looks promising.

A bit related to that issue, I was wondering if you're planning to create a grunt-protractor task? If not I might just do it myself... but for that i'll need to wait for it to be a node module.

Thanks

from protractor.

I'm going to spend some time on this issue this afternoon. Hopefully it'll be a quick PR, but I'm not certain how much effort is involved.

from protractor.

I made a little progress Friday. It will take a little bit of time to write unit tests, given the complexity of mocking the different APIs.

from protractor.

@jeffbcross Just an idea for unit testing: If you find the point where webdriver.js does it's http calls to the selenium server and replace that with a mock, you might not need to mock the whole webdriver.js API, but only those http calls, which are also documented (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol). This would result in a kind of integration test that are still very fast.

from protractor.

ping @jeffbcross, what about that? Can we help?

from protractor.

We're running via grunt using shell commands with an express server that we fire up:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');
...
/**
 * Protractor Bin path mapping for supporting windows based development.
 */
var protractorBinPath = "node_modules/protractor/bin/";
var isWin = !!process.platform.match(/^win/);
...
/**
 * Changing references for windows execution.
 */
if(isWin) {
    protractorBinPath = "node_modules\\.bin\\";
}
...
/**
 * Run shell commands.
 */
shell: {
    // run protractor e2e testing
    protractor: {
        options: {
            stdout: true
        },
        command: protractorBinPath + 'protractor protractor.conf.js'
    }
}
...
/**
 * Individual task to run e2e test alone using connect web server.
 */
grunt.registerTask('e2e:stand-alone', ['express', 'shell:protractor']);

Followed by:

$ grunt e2e:stand-alone

And we have this wrapped up into our larger build process.

from protractor.

I wrote a Grunt plugin for running the protractor runner. https://github.com/teerapap/grunt-protractor-runner

from protractor.