Protractor OSX bring browser window to front

Question

I am running protractor to test angularjs app. All working fine, but when the browser window is spawned, it is in the background, so I have to cmd-tab to find it, and miss what happens at the start.

Is there any way I can programmatically bring the browser window to the foreground?

Answer 1

You can trigger an alert and immediately accept it. Put the following into onPrepare():

onPrepare: function () {
    return browser.executeScript("alert('Test');").then(function () {
        return browser.switchTo().alert().accept();
    });
},

Or, as @LeoGalucci pointed out, take a screenshot:

onPrepare: function () {
    return browser.takeScreenshot(); 
},

Note that return is important here - in this case, Protractor would not start executing tests until the promise returned from onPrepare() is resolved.

Both options worked for me.