wt-protractor-runner

What's that for?

This module is here to help you with two things:

• Run protractor from gulp with just one line of code.
• Run a bunch or protractor instances sequentially for local cross-browser testing or using cloud platforms like Browserstack.

Run protractor

As you may know, there's already gulp-protractor that allows you to use a gulp plugin in order to run protractor. Its readme also shows how to run protractor without a gulp plugin but it needs some copy/pasting. wt-protractor-runner will help you avoid this code duplication and run your tests in few seconds.

Install wt-protractor-runner

Gulpfile.js:

 var protractorRunner = require('wt-protractor-runner');
 
 gulp.task('test-e2e', protractorRunner({
     configList: [
         {
             capabilites: {
                 browser: 'chrome'
             },
             specs: __dirname + '/test/e2e/*.js'
         }
     ]
 }));

Run:

 gulp test-e2e

Run cross-browser tests with protractor.

Just do the same as above and give multiple configurations to protractor.

 
 var protractorRunner = require('wt-protractor-runner');
 var specPattern = __dirname + '/test/e2e/*.js';
 
 gulp.task('test-e2e', protractorRunner({
     configList: [
         /* Chrome. */
         {
             capabilites: {
                 browser: 'chrome'
             },
             specs: specPattern
         },
         /* Safari on browserstack. */
         {
              capabilities: {
                  acceptSslCerts: true,
                  browserName: 'safari',
                  'browserstack.debug': true,
                  'browserstack.user': process.env.YOUR_BROWSERSTACK_USER_ENV_VAR,
                  'browserstack.key': process.env.YOUR_BROWSERSTACK_KEY_ENV_VAR,
                  os: 'OS X',
                  os_version: 'Yosemite'
              },
              seleniumAddress: 'http://hub.browserstack.com/wd/hub'
              specs: specPattern
         }
     ]
 }));

To make this more readable, you should use wt-protractor-utils.

Without gulp.

 protractorRunner({configList: ...})(callback);