Protractor - run multiple tests in parallel on different System - protractor

Question

Is there any way to run multiple test suites in parallel on different machines.
I am able to do parallel execution in same machine with different browser.
Tried using seleniumAdress: ''/wd/hub
But its not working.

Answer 1

Finally Got the answer :-)
Step 1: Start selenium standalone using following command
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar -port 5041
here 5041 is a port number.
Step 2: add following line of code in your configuration file
multiCapabilities: [
{
browserName: 'safari',
shardTestFiles: true,
seleniumAddress: 'http://IP1:5041/wd/hub',
specs: '../xyz.js',
maxInstances: 1
},
{
browserName: 'safari',
shardTestFiles: true,
seleniumAddress: 'http://IP2:5041/wd/hub',
specs: '../pqr.js',
maxInstances: 1
}
],
Note: You need start selenium-standalone in both the system.

Answer 2

There may be a better way to do this but currently I am just executing these as concurrent Grunt tasks.
1) Add the grunt concurrent plugin
npm install grunt-concurrent --save-dev
2) Add a task for each browser under grunt.initConfig. We can add the browser as an arg to re-use our configuration file.
protractor: {
options: {
keepAlive: true,
singleRun: false,
configFile: "test/protractor.conf.js"
},
run_chrome: {
options: {
args: {
browser: "chrome"
}
}
},
run_firefox: {
options: {
args: {
browser: "firefox"
}
}
}
},
3) Register these as tasks;
grunt.registerTask('protractor-chrome', ['protractor:run_chrome']);
grunt.registerTask('protractor-firefox', ['protractor:run_firefox']);
4) Create your concurrent task under grunt.initConfig
concurrent: {
protractor_test: ['protractor-chrome', 'protractor-firefox']
},
5) Add the grunt task for concurrent
grunt.registerTask('protractor-e2e', ['concurrent:protractor_test']);
And executing that should give you concurrent protractor tests.
Hope this helps. :)