I'm trying to use protractor for e2e tests in my Angular project. I previously installed selenium server and chromedriver in my path and it works fine for non-angular projects. I do not have access to googleapis or any of the alternate cdns required by webdriver-manager.
How can I run protractor tests w/o involving webdriver-manager in any way? I want to use the tools I have installed globally. Is this a possibility?
When I try to run the ng e2e I get the error: Error message: Could not find update-config.json. Run 'webdriver-manager update' to download binaries.
When I try to run webdriver-manager update I get an http 403.
In my protractor.conf.js file I have directConnect: true and capabilities.browserName: 'chrome'
I was hoping that by using directConnect it would just find the chromedriver in my path but that isn't the case. In the past I would use the selenium-webdriver npm module to spin-up an instance of chrome driver.
Download latest selenium standalone server and chromedriver from https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
Create a batch file
java -Dselenium.LOGGER.level=WARNING -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:/Program Files (x86)/Selenium/WebDrivers/ChromeDrivers/2.38/chromedriver.exe" -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar -port 4444
specify the port,Chromedriver location and log level.
Just run the batch file and now you have selenium server running.
In your config file mention Selenium address 127.0.0.1:4444 or localhost
I think best way is either go for selenium grid(Dockerized Selenium or Jar based grid . Other option is
directConnect: true
in your protractor config file.
you can use ng cli option: webdriver-update to make it not to execute webdriver update as following:
ng e2e --webdriver-update=false
But ng e2e uses the webdriver in local package not global package, I think you need a npm script to copy your pre-prepared webdriver to project local package before execute ng e2e --webdriver-update=false
