Protractor flakiness

Question

I maintain a complex Angular (1.5.x) application that is being E2E tested using Protractor (2.5.x). I am experiencing a problem with this approach, which presents primarily in t

Answer 1

Yes, I think all of us experienced such flakiness issue.

Actually, the flakiness is quite common issue with any browser automation tool. However, this is supposed to be less in case of Protractor as Protractor has built-in wait consideration which performs actions only after loading the dom properly. But, in few cases you might have to use some explicit waits if you see intermittent failures.

I prefer to use few intelligent wait methods like:

function waitForElementToClickable(locator) {
        var domElement = element(by.css(locator)),
            isClickable = protractor.ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(domElement);

        return browser.wait(isClickable, 2000)
            .then(function () {
                return domElement;
            });
    }

Where 2000 ms is used as timeout, you can make it configurable using a variable.Sometimes I also go with browser.sleep() when none of my intelligent wait works.