Protractor VS TestCafe

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).

Protractor repo (link)

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.

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:

The Protractor testing framework was created for e2e testing of Angular apps. https://www.protractortest.org/

Future of Angular E2E & Plans for Protractor · Issue #5502 · angular/protractor

In April, the Angular team has announced plans to end the support of Protractor at the end of 2022.

"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

Angular will deprecate Protractor soon https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502

Official website: Testcafe.io

So far I have used test-cafe, it is definitely a go-to automation tool for modern web End-To-End testing. You can use it on your own project quickly with ease and less code. Also, it has many more features to explore. You can start exploring test-cafe now.

Here it is: Contribute to the open-source Selenideium Element Inspector Chrome Extension, with which test automation teams can save hours daily by automatically generating all the relevant selectors for Selenide, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Squish and TestCafe.

✅ Angular 13 ✅ Angular Material ✅ Unit Testing with Jest ✅ End-to-End Testing with [TestCafé](https://testcafe.io/ ✅ Internationalization with Transloco ✅ Auto documentation with Compodoc ✅ Analyse your project with webpack-bundle-analyzer ✅ Docker ✅ ESLint ✅ Prettier ✅ Commit Linting ✅ AuditJS Audit this application using Sonatype OSS Index ✅ Auto-generate a CHANGELOG with auto-changelog

✅ End-to-End Testing with TestCafé

✅ Angular 13 ✅ Angular Material ✅ Unit Testing with Jest ✅ End-to-End Testing with TestCafé ✅ Internationalization with Transloco ✅ Auto documentation with Compodoc ✅ Analyse your project with webpack-bundle-analyzer ✅ Docker ✅ ESLint ✅ Prettier ✅ Commit Linting

TestCafe

As of Angular 12, Protractor won't be included by default in new projects. Instead, the Angular CLI will provide options to use other solutions like Cypress, WebdriverIO, or TestCafe. This means that the ng e2e command should continue to be supported in the future.