Angular Protractor - Leave browser open after E2E tests

Question

Is it possible to leave the test browser windows open after Angular Protractor tests run? I have a tough test failing in FireFox and it\'d be useful to access the state of t

Answer 1

super simple solution, that does exactly what's needed

The idea is that you don't really want to keep alive the session but rather pause it for a very long time when tests are done and be able to resume on-close procedures at any time

So just add this to your config.js

    async onComplete() {
        await browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false);
        await browser.wait(
            async () => {
                let url = await browser.getCurrentUrl();
                return url.includes('close/');
            },
            5 * 60 * 1000,
            'Keep-alive timeout reached, closing the session...',
        );
    },

What the code does is, after all tests passed or failed, it waits until you type and submit close/ in browser's url field, or times out itself in 5 mins.

The reason await browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false); is needed here, because the browser opens an empty page when you type close/ which is non angular

You can even improve it and make it conditional, based on a parameter you pass to protractor config