Angular 2 e2e using protractor: by.model not working

Question

While writing test cases using protractor.js for Angular 2 application , if I want to get element(by.model("xyz.test")) its always giving failure saying angular is not defined.

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Answer 1

As mentioned by @Carmen Popoviciu, who is one of the contributors to the Protractor style guide, by.model and by.binding are not yet working with Protractor and Angular 2:

"Keep in mind that currently not all locator strategies are supported for ng2 apps. Things like by.model() or by.binding() are not working just yet. Check the Protractor changelog for new releases"

https://github.com/CarmenPopoviciu/angular2-go-protractor

Answer 2

The answer from @Gabriel Kohen is definitely accurate but I thought I would add another answer with some links to the documentation that actively discourage use of by.model and by.binding

https://github.com/angular/protractor#compatibility

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/locators.md#locators

At this point it's probably unlikely they will ever be supported.