Selenium WebDriver tests with JavaScript disabled

Question

One of our internal applications (written in angularjs) has a special error box appearing if javascript is disabled in the browser (using noscript), similar to the

Answer 1

Found an alternative solution/workaround - "NoScript Security Suite" firefox extension.

It disables javascript per-domain and, by default, it does it for all sites except listed in the whitelist. This makes the webdriver run without problems, open up a web page, then the extension disables javascript for this particular site and I see the contents of the noscript tag.

Here's the protractor config:

'use strict';

var helper = require('./disabledJavascript.helper.js');

exports.config = {
    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',

    capabilities: helper.getFirefoxProfile(),
    chromeOnly: false,

    specs: [
        'disabledJavascript.spec.js'
    ],

    framework: 'jasmine',

    allScriptsTimeout: 20000,

    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9001',

    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        showColors: true,
        isVerbose: true,
        includeStackTrace: true
    }
};

where disabledJavascript.helper.js contains:

'use strict';

var q = require('q');
var FirefoxProfile = require('firefox-profile');

exports.getFirefoxProfile = function() {
    var deferred = q.defer();
    var firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();

    firefoxProfile.addExtension('./test/e2e/disabledJavascript/noscript.xpi', function () {
        firefoxProfile.encoded(function(encodedProfile) {
            var capabilities = {
                'firefox_profile' : encodedProfile,
                'browserName': 'firefox'
            };
            deferred.resolve(capabilities);
        });
    });

    return deferred.promise;
};

where noscript.xpi is a downloaded "Noscript" extension.