Protractor tests inconsistently passing / failing for AngularJS app

Question

My Protractor e2e tests are inconsistently passing and failing.

It seems this could be due to asynchronous javascript, as discussed here: Protractor : How to wait for

Answer 1

browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; has a global effect for all your tests. you may have to set it back to false, so protractor waits for angular to be finished rendering the page. e.g. in or before your second beforeEach function