can serenity js used as a testing tool for Knockout js?

Question

I want to know whether the serenity/js can be used for other JavaScript frameworks or it just only for Angular/js?

Answer 1

Protractor is a wrapper around Selenium WebDriver, which means that it can test anything WebDriver could.

To test any non-Angular project though you'll need to disable Angular-specific test synchronisation, which you can do using either:

Protractor configuration file

If your tests are only ever going to execute non-Angular projects, you can disable Angular-specific synchronisation for all the tests by adding browser.ignoreSynchronization = true to the onPrepare block in your protractor.conf.js file:

exports.config = {
  // ... other config

  onPrepare: function() {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;  // <-- disables synchronisation
  }
};

Serenity/JS task

If your tests need to support both Angular and non-Angular projects, you can toggle the synchronisation using the UseAngular.disableSynchronisation() and UseAngular.enableSynchronisation() tasks like this:

actor.attemptsTo(
  UseAngular.disableSynchronisation(),
  // ... interact with a non-Angular app
  UseAngular.enableSynchronisation(),
  // ... interact with an Angular app
)

You can learn more about the second approach in my article on "Cross-application testing"

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