Shane Ardell created METRON-1648:
------------------------------------
Summary: Use Cypress instead of Protractor to run e2e tests
Key: METRON-1648
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1648
Project: Metron
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Shane Ardell
There are a handful of major advantages we will gain if we switch from
Protractor to Cypress:
* As with most Selenium-based e2e testing frameworks, Protractor suffers from
test flakiness. This is because Selenium runs outside of the browser and
executes remote commands across the network. To work around this at the moment,
we are using protractor-flake to re-run failed tests, but this is more of a
crutch than a fix to Metron's flaky tests. Cypress executes in the same run
loop as the application it's testing and does not suffer from the same
flakiness.
* In addition to being less flaky, Cypress runs much faster than Protractor.
* Protractor is incredibly hard to debug. In contrast, Cypress can easily be
debugged in the browser, has readable stack traces, has the ability to time
travel, etc.
* We are currently unable to integrate Protractor e2e tests into Travis. With
Cypress, [it's possible to add these tests to our
CI|https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/continuous-integration.html#Example-travis-yml-config-file].
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v7.6.3#76005)
