protractor-collab-test-example

This is a very simple setup to use protractor to go through the Collaboratory login page.

Setup

Use npm to install Protractor globally with:

npm install -g protractor

This will install two command line tools, protractor and webdriver-manager. Try running protractor --version to make sure it's working.

The webdriver-manager is a helper tool to easily get an instance of a Selenium Server running. Use it to download the necessary binaries with:

webdriver-manager update

Now start up a server with:

webdriver-manager start

This will start up a Selenium Server and will output a bunch of info logs. Your Protractor test will send requests to this server to control a local browser. You can see information about the status of the server at http://localhost:4444/wd/hub.

Configure your credentials

In order to login, you need to set valid credentials in the login.js file:

const USERNAME = 'My username';
const PASSWORD = 'My-password';

Run the test

protractor conf.js

This will open a browser and try to log in the Collaboratory with the provided credentials.