gulp-protractor e2e task fails to run

Question

Update: Seems like this is a bug in gulp-protractor. On their github page they filed it as a bug and will take a look into it. Source: https://github.com/mllrsohn/gulp-protractor/issues/64

Only possible workaround you can do until the bug is resolved is change the directory of your project to something that doesn't include spaces.

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So I'm trying to get an Aurelia project started including front end unit testing. Here is where the problem starts. When I try to run the e2e gulp task I get the following error:

[10:45:44] using gulpfile ~\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2013\\Projects\\ProjectX\\ProjectX\\gulpfile.js
[10:45:44] Starting 'build-e2e'...
[10:45:44] Finished 'build-e2e' after 207 ms
[10:45:44] Starting 'e2e'...
'C:\\Users\\jorisd\\Documents\\Visual' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\\Users\\jorisd\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2013\\Projects\\ProjectX\\ProjectX\\build\\tasks\\e2e.js:34
.on('error', function(e) {throw e; });

Error: protractor exited with code 1

Basically it's the highlighted code that has the problem. Since my path includes a space, it'll stop there for some reason.

Here's how my e2e.js file looks like right now:

 var gulp = require('gulp'); var paths = require('../paths'); var to5 = require('gulp-babel'); var plumber = require('gulp-plumber'); var webdriverUpdate = require('gulp-protractor').webdriver_update; var webdriverStandalone = require("gulp-protractor").webdriver_standalone; var protractor = require('gulp-protractor').protractor; // for full documentation of gulp-protractor, // please check https://github.com/mllrsohn/gulp-protractor gulp.task('webdriver-update', webdriverUpdate); gulp.task('webdriver-standalone', ['webdriver-update'], webdriverStandalone); // transpiles files in // /test/e2e/src/ from es6 to es5 // then copies them to test/e2e/dist/ gulp.task('build-e2e', function() { return gulp.src(paths.e2eSpecsSrc) .pipe(plumber()) .pipe(to5()) .pipe(gulp.dest(paths.e2eSpecsDist)); }); // runs build-e2e task // then runs end to end tasks // using Protractor: http://angular.github.io/protractor/ gulp.task('e2e', ['build-e2e'], function(cb) { return gulp.src(paths.e2eSpecsDist + '/*.js') .pipe(protractor({ configFile: '/protractor.conf.js', args: ['--baseUrl', 'http://127.0.0.1:9000'] })) .on('end', function() { process.exit(); }) .on('error', function(e) { throw e; }); }); 

The problem is situating in the e2e task with the configFile option.
I tried change the line into the following:

 configFIle: __dirname + '/protractor.conf.js', 

But this aswell without result. If any of you know a workaround for including spaces in the configFile path, I'll be happy to hear it.

Answer 1

For me its working fine.

var angularProtractor = require('gulp-angular-protractor');

gulp.task('test', function (callback) {

 gulp
     .src([__dirname+'/public/apps/adminapp/**/test/**_test.js'])
     .pipe(angularProtractor({
         'configFile': 'public/apps/adminapp/app.test.config.js',
         'debug': false,
         'args': ['--suite', 'adminapp'],
         'autoStartStopServer': true
     }))
     .on('error', function(e) {
         console.log(e);
     })
    .on('end',callback);

});