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Rise & Fall of Protractor - What are the Top Alternatives to Protractor?
Rise & Fall of Protractor - What are the Top Alternatives to Protractor?

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The Protractor testing tool is an end to end behavior-driven testing framework designed keeping Angular JS applications in mind. Hang one a minute, does that mean Protractor won’t work with non-angular JS applications? The answer is NO; it does work with non-angular JS application as well.  It acts as an end-to-end testing framework for both Angular and non-Angular applications that does not use CSS attributes.

Modern developers just love AngularJS framework and always prefer it over other available open source frameworks. AngularJS specifically emphasizes code quality, testability and it can quickly launch applications by extending the functionality of HTML. Angular JS applications have some extra HTML attributes like ng-repeater, ng-controller, ng-model etc. which are not included in Selenium locators. It has helped Protractor enormously in gaining the momentum in the recent times.

Protractor is arguable one of the most preferred test automation tool for web applications; uniting influential technologies such as Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, Jasmine and Node.js etc. It also has a high capability to write automated regressions tests for web applications. Protractor development was initially started by Google but was later turned into an open-source framework.

Key features of Protractor                                                                    

So, what make this tool really especial? Here are some of the silent features of Protractor that make it worthy and preferred choice for testing AngularJS applications:

  • Simple syntax to write test cases
  • Protractor is a wrapper around WebDriverJS and supports behavior-driven development frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber etc.
  • Multiple browser support (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet explorer)
  • It makes use of Selenium grid to run multiple browsers at once.
  • It offers some new locator strategies and functions that automate the testing of AngularJS applications. Protractor works in conjunction with Selenium to offer an automated test infrastructure.
  • Supported integration with Jenkins/Browser Stack/Grunt etc.
  • Ability to run the same scripts in mobile browsers also without the need to change the code
  • Support for Behavior-driven development such as Jasmine/Mocha
  • Protractor also speeds up your testing as it avoids the need for a lot of “sleeps” and “waits” in your tests, as it optimizes sleep and wait times.

Possible Top Alternatives for Protractor

The Angular team has announced that the support of Protractor in the Angular CLI will be discontinued and that the Protractor project itself will be abandoned. Now, with Protractor being deprecated, we need to evaluate the possible options of our most reliable Protractor for maintaining our end-to-end testing suite.

A few popular and possible alternatives for Protractor are following:

  1. Cypress
  2. Playwright
  3. Puppeteer
  4. Selenium WebDriver
  5. TestCafe
  6. io
  7. End-to-End Testing with UNITE
  8. UNITE

Although, automation of testing frameworks not only helps you improve the quality, speed, and accuracy of the entire testing processes. But, the strategy to implement test automation should clearly outline when to opt for automation

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