Shashank Shukla - The Protractor Handbook: Understanding and Implementing the Tool Effectively

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Many thanks to the generous people of the open source community who contribute each day selflessly to make modern test automation tools easy to use and help people implement smarter testing approaches.

Id like to thank everyone at Apress who helped make this book possible and put up with the fumbling efforts of a novice author.

I would also like to thank my employer Azuga Inc., my engineering manager, Sindhoora Ramesh, test manager, Rohit Naarayanan, and colleagues, Shubham Sharma & Logesh Kumar, for providing a conducive and healthy work environment of mentorship and support. Also, I have not forgotten the software testers and consultants I have worked with so far and learned from throughout my career. Without your help, this book would not have been written!

And finally, I want to thank my mom, dad, and wife, who tirelessly managed everything else, giving me the luxury of time needed while I completed this book over the last year.

Protractor is a Node.js-based automation framework , also developed by Google. It is a go-to choice for testing Angular applications because Google customizes it to work well with Angular components that spawn in the DOM of the web page.

Protractor is a customized implementation of the official Selenium API , which is based on JavaScript and packaged as selenium-webdriver under the npm package, which runs on Node.js. Protractor abstracts all the lengthy syntax and complex asynchronous promise management of underlying JavaScript and presents users with easy-to-read-and-remember action commands. It makes every test step synchronous, meaning the user doesnt have to worry about any missed steps in the test code. The framework is flexible; however, it comes with Jasmine as its test framework by default.

It is packaged and installed through npm and runs on Node.js, which is a JavaScript runtime environment that allows you to run JavaScript outside of your browser. It can run on macOS, Linux, and Windows.