Unable to run Protractor - ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED

Question

I'm trying to learn AngularJS. As part of this, I want to learn to use end-to-end testing. Currently, I have a directory structure like this:

node_modules   .bin   ...   protractor     ...     node_modules        .bin        adam-zip        glob        minijasminenode        optimist        saucelabs        selenium-webdriver protractor   config.js src   tests     test.e2e.js 

My config.js file looks like the following:

exports.config = {     seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',      capabilities: {         'browserName': 'chrome'     },      specs: [         '../src/tests/test.e2e.js'     ],      jasmineNodeOpts: {         showColors: true,         defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000     } }; 

test.e2e.js looks like the following:

'use strict';  describe('My Sample', function () {     driver = protractor.getInstance();      beforeEach(function () {         driver.get('#/');     });      it('My First Test', function () {         message = "Hello.";         expect(message).toEqual('World.');     }); }); 

When I attempt to run my end-to-end tests using protractor, I run the following command from the command-line:

node_modules\.bin\protractor protractor\config.js 

When I run that command, I receive the following error:

C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\promise.js:1542       throw error;             ^ Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:12 7:16)     at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)     at Socket.socketErrorListener (http.js:1528:9)     at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)     at net.js:441:14     at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13) ==== async task ==== WebDriver.createSession()     at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession_ (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriv er\lib\webdriver\webdriver.js:130:49)     at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver \lib\webdriver\webdriver.js:110:30)     at Builder.build (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\builder.js:105:20)     at runJasmineTests (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.js:191:45)     at C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.js:255:5     at C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog\base.js:1178:15     at webdriver.promise.ControlFlow.runInNewFrame_ (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriv er\lib\webdriver\promise.js:1438:20)     at notify (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\promise.js:328:12)     at then (C:\Src\MyProject\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\promise.js:377:7) 

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I solved this with --standalone flag:

webdriver-manager start --standalone

Answer 2

I got it working by removing the following line from my config.js

seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',