Testing non-angular apps with Protractor

Introduction#

Protractor is made for testing Angular applications. However, it is still possible to test non-angular applications with Protractor if needed.

Changes needed to test non-angular app with Protractor

Use browser.driver instead of driver

Use browser.driver.ignoreSynchronization = true

Reason: Protractor waits for angular components to load completely on a web-page befor it begins any execution. However, since our pages are non-angular, Protractor keeps waiting for ‘angular’ to load till the test fails with timeout. So, we need to explicitly tell the Protractor to not to wait for ‘angular’