Wait for user action

Question

I am looking for a solution, if it is possible to wait for the data entered by the user in protractor.

I mean test stop for a while and I can enter some value and then these data are used in further tests.

I tried to use javascript prompt, but I did not do much, maybe it is possible to enter data in OS terminal?

Please give me an example if it is possible.

Answer 1

I would not recommend mixing the automatic and manual selenium browser control.

That said, you can use Explicit Waits to wait for certain things to happen on a page, e.g. you can wait for the text to be present in a text input, or an element to become visible, or a page title to be equal to something you expect, there are different ExpectedConditions built-in to protractor and you can easily write your own custom Expected Conditions to wait for. You would have to set a reasonable timeout though.

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Alternatively, you can pass the user-defined parameters through browser.params, see:

• How can I use command line arguments in Angularjs Protractor?

Example:

protractor my.conf.js --params.login.user=abc --params.login.password=123

Then, you can access the values in your test through browser.params:

var login = element(by.id("login"));
login.sendKeys(browser.params.login.user);