How to run Protractor test when spec is remote

Question

Here's the situation:

• machineA has Protractor, Selenium, WebDriver, etc. installed.
• machineB has all source code including tests and server running source code, but no Protractor, Selenium, etc
• environment is Linux on both machines

How can I run the Protractor command on machineA so that it points to the spec on machineB?

ie. How to get a local Protractor command to point to a remote spec?

Answer 1

You need to provide seleniumAddress in your config file and make sure directConnect option is commented or value should be false.

Start webdriver on machineA through webdriver-manager start

exports.config = {
    baseUrl: 'http://example.com/',
    seleniumAddress: 'https://<machineA IP addess>:4444/wd/hub',
    //directConnect:true,
...
}