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Protractor
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Introduction to Cypress and UI Test Automation
Cypress is a next-generation front-end Automation testing tool built for modern web applications. It is a JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework and is known for faster test execution as compared with other testing tools (like Selenium or Protractor).
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Overview over Angular’s repositories
Protractor repo (link)
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Nx 14.5 - Cypess v10, Output globs, Linter perf, React Tailwind support
Protractor has been deprecated for a while on the Angular CLI side and given Nx has had Cypress support for a while it has never been a popular choice. Starting with this release we're deprecating the generator for setting up Protractor and we're planning on removing support entirely in Nx v15.
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Angular CLI and Nx - Why?
In recent releases, the Angular CLI kept reducing its feature set, mainly due to tools such as Protractor as well as TSLint being deprecated. As a result, starting with Angular 14, the Angular CLI provides the following when generating a new application:
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Help with automatization
The Protractor testing framework was created for e2e testing of Angular apps. https://www.protractortest.org/
- Unit testing library for Angular application
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Protractor is dead, long live Cypress! - Part 1
Future of Angular E2E & Plans for Protractor · Issue #5502 · angular/protractor
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Angular 12 in Depth
In April, the Angular team has announced plans to end the support of Protractor at the end of 2022.
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Looking for some advise/direction on a new testing framework
"The Angular team plans to end development of Protractor at the end of 2022 (in conjunction with Angular v15)." - https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502
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What UI testing framework do you use and what do you like/dislike about it?
Angular will deprecate Protractor soon https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502
What are some alternatives?
prova - Test runner based on Tape and Browserify
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
halower/vue-tree - tree and multi-select component based on Vue.js 2.0
WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
DalekJS - [unmaintained] DalekJS Base framework
TestCafe - A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
tape - tap-producing test harness for node and browsers
jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.
qunit - 🔮 An easy-to-use JavaScript unit testing framework.
Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser
Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.