Incorporating E2E tests and Protractor in Grunt

Out of the box, Yeoman does not integrate Protractor into its test suite; doing so requires manual work. The Grunt Protractor setup is extremely similar to that of Karma, as they both use the Jasmine syntax and *.conf.js files.

Note

This recipe demonstrates the process of installing and configuring Protractor, but much of this can be generalized to incorporate any new package into Grunt.

Getting ready

The following is a checklist of things to do in order to ensure that your test suite will run correctly:

  • Ensure that the grunt-karma extension is installed using the npm install grunt-karma --save-dev command
  • Save yourself the trouble of having to list out all the needed Grunt tasks in your Gruntfile by automatically ...

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