Setting up Continuous Integration of Protractor using Jenkins

Question

I am writing automation test scripts using Protractor and now I need to set up the CI for this using Jenkins.

Tasks it needs to perform are:

1. Starting t

Answer 1

You can use Gulp which is far simpler.

After installing gulp in Jenkins System , you may install the npm dependencies(npm install) & run gulp tasks directly as windows batch command in Jenkins as below:

In the background to make selenium server up and running and providing various other parameters , you may use packages like 'gulp-angular-protractor' in the gulpfile.js as below:

gulpfile.js

'use strict';

 var gulp = require('gulp'),
 gulpProtractorAngular = require('gulp-angular-protractor'),
 gulpStart = gulp.Gulp.prototype.start,
 currentStartTaskName;

 gulp.Gulp.prototype.start = function (task) {
    currentStartTaskName = task;
    gulpStart.apply(this, arguments);
};
function executeWebTests(suiteName, appName) {
    return gulp.src([])
        .pipe(gulpProtractorAngular({
            'configFile': './conf.js',
            'debug': false,
            'autoStartStopServer': true,
            args: [
                '--suite', suiteName,
                '--capabilities.browserName', 'chrome',
                '--params.APPNAME', appName,
                '--params.SUITENAME', currentStartTaskName,
                '--capabilities.platformName', 'Windows'],
            keepAlive: false
        }))
        .on('error', function (e) {
            console.log('Ended with below ERROR::',e);
            process.exit(1);
        })
        .on('end', function () {
            console.log('Test complete');
            process.exit();
        });
}

gulp.task('RegressionSuiteTask', function () {
    executeWebTests('regressionTests,','Application_Name');
});

conf.js

 suites: {
          regressionTests: ['testCases/**/*.js']//will run all specs in subfolders 
         },