Set Internet Explorer options for protractor (--headless) - protractor

Question

I would like to set headless option in my protractor configuration for internet explorer, but I cannot find anyting related to this. They only say how to do it in Chrome and Firefox: Adding chrome and Firefox specific options.
This is what I have so far:
multiCapabilities: [
{
'browserName': 'chrome',
chromeOptiaons: {
args: ["--headless"]
},
},
{
'browserName': 'firefox',
'moz:firefoxOptions': {
args: ["--headless"]
}
},
{
'browserName': 'internet explorer',
internetExplorerOptions: { <---------------------------
args: ["--headless"] <---------------------------
}
}
],
internetExplorerOptions is not working
So how do I add the 'Options / args' option to IE?

Answer 1

IE does not have support for a headless mode. But you can try to use triflejs.
I did not try this solution by myself but seems like it's the only option since IE is basically obsolete browser and it does not receive any updates.

Answer 2

First of all, you need IEDriverServer.
I will try to make this as simple as possible. The proper way to get and install this is, by using protractor’s built-in functionality.
Install Webdriver-manager and gulp, globally.
npm installwebdriver-manager gulp -g
Browse to node_modules/protractor/bin and run
npm webdriver-manager --standalone update
npm webdriver-manager --ie update
Then, you will need to manually start the webdriver server
For this, you will need to run
npm webdriver-manager --ie start
As simple as that.
After that, the 2nd step is to get the config file right.
The spicy and “different” stuff is: Capabilities, direct connect, and
LocalSeleniumStandaloneOpts
Necessary and Important examples for config file, in order to run the spec test suite:
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'internet explorer',
'ignoreProtectedModeSettings': true,
'platform': 'ANY',
'version': '11',
args: ['--silent', '--no-sandbox', '--test-type=browser', '--lang=US', '--start-maximized'], //,'--headless', '--disable-gpu'
prefs: {
'download': {
'prompt_for_download': false,
'directory_upgrade': true,
'extensions_to_open': '',
'default_directory': process.cwd() + '/downloads/'
},
}
},
localSeleniumStandaloneOpts: {
jvmArgs: [
'-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/IEDriverServer3.14.0.exe'
]
},
directConnect: false,
framework: 'jasmine',
seleniumArgs: ['-
Dwebdriver.ie.driver=node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-
manager/selenium/IEDriverServer3.14.0.exe'],
seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub'