Protractor - run multiple tests in parallel on different browsers

Question

I can\'t find any information on how to set this up, but it seems like a pretty basic concept, so I\'m sure there\'s an answer out there.

I know how to run protrac

Answer 1

Update Feb 2014 - This answer is no longer valid. Use Paolo Moretti's answer below.

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There may be a better way to do this but currently I am just executing these as concurrent Grunt tasks.

1) Add the grunt concurrent plugin

npm install grunt-concurrent --save-dev

2) Add a task for each browser under grunt.initConfig. We can add the browser as an arg to re-use our configuration file.

protractor: {
        options: {
            keepAlive: true,
            singleRun: false,
            configFile: "test/protractor.conf.js"
        },
        run_chrome: {
            options: {
                args: {
                    browser: "chrome"
                }
            }
        },
        run_firefox: {
            options: {
                args: {
                    browser: "firefox"
                }
            }
        }
    },

3) Register these as tasks;

grunt.registerTask('protractor-chrome', ['protractor:run_chrome']);
grunt.registerTask('protractor-firefox', ['protractor:run_firefox']);

4) Create your concurrent task under grunt.initConfig

concurrent: {
        protractor_test: ['protractor-chrome', 'protractor-firefox']
    },

5) Add the grunt task for concurrent

grunt.registerTask('protractor-e2e', ['concurrent:protractor_test']);

And executing that should give you concurrent protractor tests.