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Protractor is an end-to-end test framework developed for Angular and AngularJS applications. It runs tests against the application interacting with it as a real user would, running in a real browser. In this article, we are going to test the name of the tag of an element.

Pre-requisite: Installation and Setup of Protractor

Approach:

  • We are going to create a basic test program in which we are going to test the name of the tag of an element.
  • All the Protractor tests will have a file that will contain the configuration and this will be the initial file that will initiate the test.
  • Let’s create this file with the name conf.js.

    conf.js:

    Javascript




    exports.config = {
      
        // Capabilities to be passed to the
        // webdriver instance.
        capabilities: {
            'browserName': 'chrome'
        },
      
        // Framework to use. Jasmine is recommended.
        framework: 'jasmine',
      
        // Spec patterns are relative 
        // to the current working directory when
        // protractor is called.
        specs: ['test.js'],
      
        // Options to be passed to Jasmine.
        jasmineNodeOpts: {
            defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
        },
      
        // Url for the file
        baseUrl: 'file://' + __dirname + '/',
      
        onPrepare: function () {
            browser.resetUrl = 'file://';
        }
    };

    
    

  • Now let’s create our HTML file called test.html which will contain the element to be tested.

    HTML




    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
      
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content=
          "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <title>Testing</title>
    </head>
      
    <body>
      
        <!-- The element to be tested -->
        <section id="sample-element">
            Inner text
        </section>
    </body>
      
    </html>

    
    

  • Now let’s create our test file test.js. In this file, we are going to access an HTML file and test the name of the tag of an element.
  • Browser is a global created by Protractor, which is used for browser-level commands such as navigation with browser.get.
  • The describe and it syntax is from the Jasmine framework where describe is a description of your test while it is the steps for the test.

    The spec file named test.js: 

    Javascript




    describe('Protractor Demo App', function () {
        it('should have a tagname', function () {
            // Disabling waiting for angular
            browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false)
      
            // Get our html file for testing
            browser.get('test.html');
      
            // Test if the element with id 'sample-element'
            // has the tag 'section'
            let sampleDiv = element(by.id('sample-element'));
            expect(sampleDiv.getTagName()).toBe('section');
        });
    });

    
    

  • Finally, we are ready to run our file using the command given below:
    protractor conf.js
  • This will run the configuration file and the test will be run as shown in the screenshot below:

Output:



Last Updated : 25 Dec, 2020
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