How to Test login page without calling Backend services in Protractor?

Question

I have a login page which authenticates the user by sending a token from the backend. But I want to test my login page with protractor without calling backend service with a dummy token. How to do that??

Answer 1

You need to use spyON , here what we do is, we won't make any API calls. Instead we will spy and return a mock data. Example:

spyOn(someObj, 'func').and.returnValue(42);

You can refer below links for more details:

https://jasmine.github.io/api/edge/Spy.html

https://scriptverse.academy/tutorials/jasmine-spyon.html

Hope this will help.