e2e test doesn't work with multiCapabilities

[PhilippSoehnlein]

The main goal I try to achieve is to run the e2e tests of an angular-cli generated app on multiple browsers which currently fails because as soon as I add a second browser I get Unexpected token import errors when I run tests.

Please provide us with the following information:

1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.4).

1. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please
   run in a Terminal:
   node --version
   And paste the result here.

$ ng --version
Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.5
node: 5.9.1
os: darwin x64

$ node --version
v5.9.1

1. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

• Create an app with angular-cli: ng new testfoo
• Change protractor.conf.js like this to make tests run in multiple browsers:

diff --git a/config/protractor.conf.js b/config/protractor.conf.js
index 57f4f87..76b4df8 100644
--- a/config/protractor.conf.js
+++ b/config/protractor.conf.js
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ exports.config = {
   specs: [
     '../e2e/**/*.e2e.ts'
   ],
-  capabilities: {
-    'browserName': 'chrome'
-  },
+  multiCapabilities: [
+    { 'browserName': 'chrome' },
+    { 'browserName': 'firefox' }
+  ],
   directConnect: true,
   baseUrl: 'http://localhost:4200/',
   framework: 'jasmine',

1. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some more information.

$ ng serve &
$ ng e2e
Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.

> testfoo@0.0.0 pree2e /Users/u1235/tmp/angularclitest/testfoo
> webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date.
chromedriver is up to date.

> testfoo@0.0.0 e2e /Users/u1235/tmp/angularclitest/testfoo
> protractor "config/protractor.conf.js"

[14:02:58] I/launcher - Running 2 instances of WebDriver
[14:02:59] I/testLogger -
------------------------------------

[14:02:59] I/testLogger - [chrome #01] PID: 4694
[chrome #01] Specs: /Users/u1235/tmp/angularclitest/testfoo/e2e/app.e2e.ts
[chrome #01]
[chrome #01] [14:02:58] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[chrome #01] [14:02:59] I/runnerCli - Unexpected token import

[14:02:59] I/testLogger -

[14:02:59] E/launcher - Runner process exited unexpectedly with error code: 1
[14:02:59] I/launcher - 1 instance(s) of WebDriver still running
[14:03:00] I/testLogger -
------------------------------------

[14:03:00] I/testLogger - [firefox #11] PID: 4695
[firefox #11] Specs: /Users/u1235/tmp/angularclitest/testfoo/e2e/app.e2e.ts
[firefox #11]
[firefox #11] [14:02:58] I/direct - Using FirefoxDriver directly...
[firefox #11] [14:03:00] I/runnerCli - Unexpected token import

[14:03:00] I/testLogger -

[14:03:00] E/launcher - Runner process exited unexpectedly with error code: 1
[14:03:00] I/launcher - 0 instance(s) of WebDriver still running
[14:03:00] I/launcher - chrome #01 failed with exit code: 1
[14:03:00] I/launcher - firefox #11 failed with exit code: 1
[14:03:00] I/launcher - overall: 2 process(es) failed to complete
[14:03:00] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 100

Some end-to-end tests failed, see above.

5. Mention any other details that might be useful.

Interestingly it works if multiCapabilities is used with only one browser, no matter which.

[raymondkarstensen]

Had the same problem, but fixed it by adding the following to protractor.conf.js
onPrepare: function () { require('ts-node').register({ project: 'e2e' }); }

[PhilippSoehnlein]

@raymondkarstensen Thanks, that works for me.

[filipesilva]

How odd... we already have require('ts-node').register({ project: 'e2e' }); in the beforeLaunch callback, which according to https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/referenceConf.js#L223-L227 should run before onPrepare. I need to investigate this further.

[raymondkarstensen]

Actually I moved it from beforeLaunch to onPrepare.

[chrischiang410]

Had the same problem, too.
After moving require('ts-node').register({ project: 'e2e' }) from beforeLaunch to onPrepare, Protractor worked fine with multiple browser finally!
Thanks @raymondkarstensen

[aniruddhadas9]

moving from onPrepare is also worked for me. More over I am using sauce lab to test my test cases and now its able to connect to sauce lab and start testing.

@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.1
node: 6.9.1
os: darwin x64

onPrepare() {
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({ spec: { displayStacktrace: true } }));
require('ts-node').register({
project: 'e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json'
});
}

[kevcjones-archived]

I can confirm using browserstack local + multiCapabilities i had the same issue. I turned off direct connect too from some console complaining it did.

@angular/cli 1.0.0
node: 6.9.5
El Capitan 10.11.5

Same as @raymondkarstensen, moving to the Prepare stage worked a treat. Is there a consequence to this?