Running protractor tests iwithin Jenkins - looking for some inspiration

Question

so - I have an application which needs 3 command prompt windows open to run - this is for angular (npm start), node (node server) and webdriver (webdriver-manager start) to run. If I do this without jenkins then I can run protractor tests using the normal "protractor " command and all works well.

I thought I'd try putting this into Jenkins (on my windows instance)

So I created a new freestyle project and had the application code checked out from git (as normal) and then used individual "Execute Windows batch command" steps for each of the steps (npm install, npm start, node server, webdriver-amanger update, webdriver-manager start, protractor )

Has anyone got experience of Node and angular with jenkins and is this the best way to run these tests?

andriyze andriyze · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-07T17:05:47

Please try something like this. You should modify accoding to what commands you want to run.

on Windows: Step 1.

npm install

Step 2.

start npm start

Step 3. (will sleep 2 seconds)

ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul

Step 4.

node node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor protractor.conf.js

On Linux:

npm install

this will start and move on without waiting for it to finish

npm start &

will wait for selenium to start

while ! curl http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/status &>/dev/null; do :; done

and at last

npm test

package.json example:

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update",
    "pretest": "npm run tsc",
    "test": "npm run protractor",
    "protractor": "node node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor",
    "start": "node node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager",
    "tsc": "node node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc"
},

https://github.com/andriyze/proTR/blob/master/package.json

Running protractor tests iwithin Jenkins - looking for some inspiration

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