launching Protractor fails and exited with error code #199"

Question

I am a new Protractor. I am trying to run a sample unit test on my first Angular2 application.

my conf.js file has :

exports.config = { 
    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:3000/login', 
    specs: ['todo-spec.js'], 
    capabilities: { 
       'browserName': 'chrome', 
        chromeOnly:true , 
        directConnect: true } 
    };

2.my 'todo-spec.js' file has :

describe('Authentication capabilities', function() {
  var email = element(by.id('inputusername'));
  var password = element(by.id('inputPassword'));
  var loginButton = element(by.class('btn-success'));


it('should redirect to the login page if trying to load protected page while not authenticated', function() {
    browser.get('http://localhost:3000/login');
    loginURL = browser.getCurrentUrl();
    email.sendKeys("demo");
    password.sendKeys("demo");
    loginButton.click();

  });  
 });

but when i try to run the protractor by the following command "protractor "filepath\conf.js",

Getting " E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199" error.

can anyone please let me know, where I'm doing mistake?

Answer 1

Check if you have the latest JDK and JRE are installed (Selenium somewhat seems to have dependencies with them).This was something unexpected that I found the hard way after finding that the server was not being initialised while running Protractor test tasks with gulp.

Answer 2

I fixed it by adding useAllAngular2AppRoots: true, in my config file.

also, commented "seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"

so right now my code is like this,and working.

exports.config = {
//seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
//directConnect: true,
specs: ['todo-spec.js'],

capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome',

},
useAllAngular2AppRoots: true,
framework: 'jasmine'
};

Answer 3

I was also facing the same issue. Eventually, I got the solution after updating the chrome latest version. I was using the Chrome version 79.0 and I have updated it to the latest version 80.0.3987.87 (Official Build) (64-bit).

Just try updating the latest chrome version as it worked for me.

Answer 4

exports.config = {
seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
//directConnect: true,
specs: ['todo-spec.js'],
capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome'
},

framework: 'jasmine'
};

if you want to use directConnect, uncomment it and comment the seleniumAddress