Protractor: verification of pop up elements randomly fails

Question

I'm verifying and also clicking on elements of pop up window on Angular page with Protractor. The problem is that verification fails randomly.

My spec file:

describe('...
    it('...
        // initialize page object
        var home = new homePage();

        // hover over the shopping cart icon
        browser.actions().mouseMove(home.shoppingCartLink).perform();

        // pause browser for 4 sec
        browser.sleep(4000);

        // initialize page object
        var shoppingCartPreview = new shoppingCartPage();

        // hover over the shopping cart preview window
        browser.actions().mouseMove(shoppingCartPreview.window).perform();

        // verify elements are displayed
        expect(shoppingCartPreview.shopName.isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy();
        expect(shoppingCartPreview.price.isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy();
        expect(shoppingCartPreview.delete.isDisplayed()).toBeTruthy();

        // click on "Checkout" button
        shoppingCartPreview.checkoutButton.click();
    });
});

As wtritten, the problem is that for all the verifications I get falsy instead of truthy. What I'm doing wrong?

I even tried with the following without a success:

// waiting for elements to be visible
browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(shoppingCartPreview.popUpWindow),10000);
browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(shoppingCartPreview.shopName),10000);
browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(shoppingCartPreview.price),10000);
browser.wait(EC.presenceOf(shoppingCartPreview.delete),10000);

Found a solution at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25062748/testing-the-contents-of-a-temporary-element-with-protractor/32076359#32076359 — jurijk, Mar 13 '17 at 13:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '17 at 14:26

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The problem is - you are waiting on - presenceOf() which only checks the presence of the element in DOM and hence it will always return true whether your pop-up is visible or not.

You need to wait like this leveraging visibilityOf() - browser.wait(EC.visibilityOf(shoppingCartPreview.popUpWindow), 5000)

answered Mar 13 '17 at 14:26

AdityaReddy

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I'm ashamed! I use this for spinner, but didn't think I can use it for this as well. THANK YOU! – jurijk Mar 14 '17 at 06:25

Protractor: verification of pop up elements randomly fails

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