How to verify that an element is present in CucumberJS and Protractor?

Question

I want to verify that an element is present when I access a page using the above mentioned FWs, is there any similar assertion library for these like the one that exists in Jasmine?

Answer 1

protractor actually documents how to configure protractor to work with cucumber framework. You need to add:

framework: 'cucumber'

to your protractor config and use a separate assertion library to deal with resolving promises while making your expectations. Here is an example that uses chai-as-promised plugin to Chai assertion library. That said and based on that, here is how you can assert an element is present:

expect(element(by.id('myid')).isPresent()).to.eventually.be.true;

eventually here is that "magic" that implicitly resolves promises.

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Note that CucumberJS and Jasmine are mutually exclusive, see:

• How to use Jasmine and CucumberJS with Protractor