End to End testing with protractor giving error

Question

I was trying to going through the tutorial in the angularjs.org's angular-phonecat. In the stetp three I'm getting error for end to end testing with protractor. here's the error code.

Using ChromeDriver directly...
Cannot read property 'matcherFn_' of undefined
[launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1

npm ERR! [email protected] protractor: `protractor test/protractor-conf.js`

npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] protractor script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     protractor test/protractor-conf.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls angular-phonecat
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodej
s\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "protractor"
npm ERR! cwd c:\angular-phonecat\angular-phonecat
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     c:\angular-phonecat\angular-phonecat\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

What;s going wrong in here?

Solution 1

The problem seems to be caused by the latest 1.0.0 version of minijasminenode. As a temporary workaround this hack worked:

• edit node_modules/protractor/package.json and change the minijasminenode dependency to <1.0.0 so it now reads like this:

"minijasminenode": "<1.0.0",

• remove the minijasminenode directory:

rm -r node_modules/protractor/node_modules/minijasminenode

• reinstall the required modules:

cd node_modules/protractor && npm install

Your e2e tests should now run. There's probably a more graceful way to achieve this.

See also https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/931

Solution 2

Andrew's answer works for me. Thanks Andrew.

By the way, I also changed 'browserName': 'chrome' into 'browserName': 'firefox', as no chrome is installed in my linux box. Then it works.

Comments

[Venkat]

plus 1 for adding firefox

[Pratik Pattanayak]

+1 for this...what if I want to use IE all versions as browserName:'internet explorer'... what should be replacing internet explorer above to host selenium server on IE (8+)browsers? I referred this code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/DesiredCapabilities

[Sajidur Rahman]

This should be a comment. Not an answer.