Integrating Protractor with Yeoman via Grunt

Question

I want to integrate Protractor with a scaffold produced by Yeoman. I followed a tutorial and therein, the older scenario-runner was used for setting up e2e test

Answer 1

As @user2172816 mentions in their answer - leaving out seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub' from your protractor config will usually cause Protractor to start a Selenium instance for you.

As an alternative, you could use grunt-protractor-webdriver to start Selenium:

1) Install and save grunt-protractor-webdriver

npm install grunt-protractor-webdriver --save-dev

2) Add the following into your Grunt definition function:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-protractor-webdriver');

3) Add the following example protractor webdriver task:

protractor_webdriver: {
        start: {
            options: {
                path: 'node_modules/protractor/bin/',
                command: 'webdriver-manager start'
            }
        }
    }

4) Add protractor_webdriver to your test task before running protractor e.g.

grunt.registerTask('test', [
    'clean:server',
    'concurrent:test',
    'autoprefixer',
    'connect:test',
    'karma',
    'protractor_webdriver',
    'protractor:run'
]);