Protractor
E2E test framework for Angular apps (by angular)
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Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js (by jasmine)
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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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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
jasmine
Posts with mentions or reviews of jasmine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. It's known for its clean, straightforward syntax and does not rely on any other JavaScript frameworks or a Document Object Model (DOM). Jasmine is often praised for its simplicity and ease of use in both frontend and backend testing environments.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Essential Picks for Modern Developers Series Overview
The test frameworks section provides an in-depth look at MochaJS, Jest, Jasmine, Puppeteer, Selenium, and Playwright. We review each framework's ease of use, community support, and overall robustness, supplemented with example unit tests.
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Migrating from Jest to Vitest for your React Application
Vitest makes it effortless to migrate from Jest. It supports the same Jasmine like API.
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How To Write Better and Quality Code
JavaScript Popular tools for testing: Mocha, Jasmine, Unit JS, Jest
- Почему я программирую на Ruby
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Inferno Versions 2 through, like, 8 released.
Internet Explorer is not actively tested anymore due to Internet Explorer retiring on June 15, 2022 and jasmine v4 has dropped IE support https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine/blob/main/release_notes/4.0.0.md
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Using Node.js for Automated Testing with Headless Browsers
To execute your tests, you can create test scripts using popular testing frameworks like Mocha, Jasmine, or Jest. These frameworks provide a structured way to organize and run your tests, report results, and handle assertions.
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Road Map To Become a Web Developer
Testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, and Jasmine are crucial for software development, ensuring code reliability and correctness. They offer features like test suites, test cases, assertions, and asynchronous testing support.
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Naming Unit Tests Function
The test framework used does matter for naming, because in some frameworks you'd use different naming conventions (i.e. the fluent naming used with https://jasmine.github.io/)
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Common Pitfalls in Angular Component Testing
Learn more about Jasmine and Karma
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Protractor and jasmine 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.
Cucumber.js - Cucumber for JavaScript
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.
Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.
mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser