How to make Protractor work while using Cloud9?

Question

I am new to Cloud9 and I am trying to use Protractor for e2e testing. I am running the angular-phonecat examples.

The error is the folowing:

Using ChromeDriver directly...
/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:109
  var template = new Error(this.message);
                 ^
UnknownError: chrome not reachable
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.10.267518,platform=Linux 3.14.13-c9 x86_64)
    at new bot.Error (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:109:18)
..

I installed the chromedriver. The only thing is how to install the actual Chrome on cloud9 and run the tests?

Thank you in advance,

cheers, Haytham

Answer 1

I'm a fan of webase IDE and Cloud9 is one of the best. Here a way to install Xvfb, chrome and Protractor for doing AngularJS end-to-end automated testing on Cloud9

Open a terminal (xvfb already installed on c9.io)

• install X11 fonts

  $ sudo apt-get install -y xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic
  

• install last chrome

  $ wget -q -O - \
    https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub \
    | sudo apt-key add - 
  $ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"  \
    >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
  $ sudo apt-get update 
  $ sudo apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable
  

• install protractor

  $ npm install -g protractor
  

• update webdriver

  $ webdriver-manager update
  

• use --no-sandbox option with chrome

  As c9.io is running inside container this option is needed.
  Update protractor conf.js to pass the option to chrome

  capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome',
    'chromeOptions': {
      args: ['--no-sandbox'] 
    }   
  }
  

run protractor test on headless chrome

• start webdriver with xvfb (headless)

  $ xvfb-run webdriver-manager start
  

• run the test on other terminal

  $ protrator conf.js
  

From http://blog.maduma.com