Protractor doesn't pause to debug

Question

I'm trying to debug Protractor-E2E-Tests but my test doesn't pause on browser.debugger() . My attempt to achieve this is to

1. start my selenium server by running 'webdriver-manager start'
2. insert browser.debugger() to my test's code
3. run grunt serve to start my application
4. run protractor debug protractor.conf.js

my console output for step 3 is the following:

Starting background Express server
debugger listening on port 5858
Express server listening on 9000, in development mode

my console ouput for step 4 is the following:

$ protractor debug protractor.conf.js
Starting debugger agent.
debugger listening on port 5858
Starting selenium standalone server...
connecting... ok
debug> Selenium standalone server started at http://192.168.1.101:57265/wd/hub
.........

Finished in 10.737 seconds

So it runs the test without pausing as intended...

Here's my protractor.conf.js:

'use strict';

exports.config = {

  allScriptsTimeout: 110000,

  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:' + (process.env.PORT || '9000'),

  // list of files / patterns to load in the browser
  specs: [
    'e2e/**/*.spec.js'
  ],

  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome'
  },

  framework: 'jasmine',
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
  }
};

edit

and here's my test's code:

it('should help to debug', function(done) {
        console.log('before debugger'); //gets displayed in console
        browser.debugger();
        console.log('after debugger'); //gets displayed in console as well, but shouldn't
        done();
});

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

I'm on windows, I have Angular universal. When I had both debugger() and pause() worked for me. It paused and I could navigate in cmd:

browser.pause();
browser.debugger();

Answer 2

use browser.pause(); --see details at http://angular.github.io/protractor/#/api?view=Protractor.prototype.pause