Testing AngularJS with Selenium

Question

I have a SPA application on stack ASP MVC + AngularJS and I\'d like to test the UI. For now I\'m trying Selenium with PhantomJS and WebKit drivers.

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Answer 1

If your web app is indeed created with Angular as you say, the best way to do end-to-end testing is with Protractor.

Internally, Protractor uses its own waitForAngular method, to ensure Protractor waits automatically until Angular has finished modifying the DOM.

Thus, in the normal case, you would never need to write an explicit wait in your test cases: Protractor does that for you.

You can look at the Angular Phonecat tutorial to learn how to set up Protractor.

If you want to use Protractor seriously, you will want to adopt pageobjects. If you want an example of that have a look at my page object test suite for the Angular Phonecat.

With Protractor you write your tests in Javascript (Protractor is indeed based on Node), and not in C# -- but in return Protractor handles all waiting for you.