Setting up Continuous Integration of Protractor using Jenkins

Question

I am writing automation test scripts using Protractor and now I need to set up the CI for this using Jenkins.

Tasks it needs to perform are:

1. Starting the selenium standalon server.
2. Starting the test using conf.js file.
3. Stopping the selenium standalone server.

Can anyone help in this regard?

Answer 1

I created a small bash script to do this.

# start selenium ./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager start > /dev/null 2>&1 &  # wait until selenium is up while ! curl http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/status &>/dev/null; do :; done  # run the build grunt cibuild --force  # stop selenium curl -s -L http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer > /dev/null 2>&1 

This script is invoked from a free-style project in jenkins (Build > Execute shell)

Then the test result report is generated by reading the protractor test results. Hence, you have to produce junit reports from protractor, (look here) :

onPrepare: function() {   // The require statement must be down here, since jasmine-reporters   // needs jasmine to be in the global and protractor does not guarantee   // this until inside the onPrepare function.   require('jasmine-reporters');   jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(     new jasmine.JUnitXmlReporter('xmloutput', true, true)); }, 

To make the report visible in jenkins i add a post build action in the job: Publish JUnit test result report:

Answer 2

Alternatively, you could run this as a Grunt Task. First install grunt on Jenkins. Install the NPM packages for protractor_webdriver and protractor. Setup the configuration file to point the the node_module path and config file paths.

http://sideroad.secret.jp/articles/grunt-on-jenkins/

Then install protractor node modules. The Gruntfile would look similar to this. I created a test directory where the conf and spec files would be located.

module.exports = function (grunt) {   grunt.initConfig({     protractor_webdriver: {         your_target: {             options: {                 path: 'node_modules/protractor/bin/',                 command: 'webdriver-manager start'             }         }     },      protractor: {         options: {             configFile: "node_modules/protractor/referenceConf.js", // Default config file             keepAlive: true, // If false, the grunt process stops when the test fails.             noColor: false, // If true, protractor will not use colors in its output.             args: {             // Arguments passed to the command             }         },         your_target: {             options: {                 configFile: "test/conf.js", // Target-specific config file                 args: {} // Target-specific arguments             }         }     } });  grunt.registerTask('p:test', [     'protractor_webdriver',     'protractor' ]);   });