How to run protractor?

Question

I'm very new to protractor. I am running this in Windows command line.

I followed the this tutorial https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md

I sucessfully run npm install -g protractor

I don't know how to run this node_modules/protractor/bin/install_selenium_standalone

If I run this straight away in command line. I am getting this error 'node_modules\protractor\bin\install_selenium_standalone' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Help me to run this sucessfully. As well as this command ./selenium/start

I am waiting for the prompt response......

Solution 1

An alternate solution to the selenium standalone server is to use the binary that protractor gives us:

$ ./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update

This will download the files with selenium and make a start script

$ ./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager start

This will start the standalone server.

A great article for Protractor setup and use:

http://www.ng-newsletter.com/posts/practical-protractor.html

Solution 2

Install node first and then use node ./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update

Solution 3

I was using the webdriver-manager update command and found that it was not successfully downloading the selenium-server-standalone-2.40.0.jar.

I manually downloaded the file and put it where it should be.

You may also have to install java and put it in your PATH variable as per https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/369

..and don't forget to re-open the node.js command prompt after changing your PATH variable.

Comments

[qorsmond]

I had to install globaly first - npm install -g protractor

[megathor]

Same issue here. My network was blocking the jar file to be downloaded.