Protractor
E2E test framework for Angular apps (by angular)
Cypress
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. (by cypress-io)
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| Protractor | Cypress | |
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| 19 | 174 | |
| 8,759 | 46,068 | |
| -0.1% | 0.5% | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| 11 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Protractor
Posts with mentions or reviews of Protractor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
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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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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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Angular 12 in Depth
As explained in the announcement, back in 2013 when Protractor was created, WebDriver was not a standard, and end-to-end (e2e) tests were hard to write, and a nightmare to maintain. Protractor brought an innovative solution by wrapping selenium-webdriver, and provided a way to control the execution flow.
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
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Angular and WireMock integration for UI testing
https://www.protractortest.org/ Large scale Angular testing with Protractor | Andres Dominguez | BuzzJS Summer 2016
Cypress
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cypress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.
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Simulating Internet Outage and Recovery using Cypress
In this blog post, we'll explore a Cypress test that replicates this scenario, utilizing the powerful intercept command to manipulate network requests and responses.
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Testing Defer Blocks in Angular with Cypress
Recently I came across this issue while triaging some issues at Cypress. (Shout out to MattiaMalandrone for creating an issue with clear instructions for how to reproduce). After quickly replicating the issue I sought after a solution which ultimately inspired me to write this article.
- Cypress changed older versions to block third-party plugins (ignoring lockfiles)
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What is Playwright?
While similar to Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium, there are some differences. Let’s find out what they are.
- Episode 23/37: ISR in Angular, Cypress & Playwright
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Episode 23/27: NgRx 16.1 & Signal Store, Jest, Cypress, Nx
Cypress Release Notes
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Cross Browser Testing with Cypress in CI/CD using Docker
Next, the values of the command keys set the commands to launch Cypress in browsers with the given names. It is worth noting here that in the e2e-firefox service, the command was supplemented by a configuration change due to an open issue with recording video when using the Firefox browser in Cypress.
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Introduction to Cypress and UI Test Automation
Cypress GitHub repository
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Synpress - Playwright and Cypress with metamask support for e2e testing of dapps
Synpress is e2e testing framework based on Playwright and Cypress with support for MetaMask.
- Cypress.io is about to die, you should migrate your projects
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Protractor and Cypress you can also consider the following projects:
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Detox - Gray box end-to-end testing and automation framework for mobile apps
WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
TestCafe - A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.
kafka-test-helper - Utility library that simplify testing of Node.js components that interacts with Kafka broker.
supertest - 🕷 Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API. Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.
Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring