zekker6/docker-protractor

Ubuntu Docker Image for Protractor

General Docker image for executing headless Google Chrome or Firefox Protractor tests cases with TypeScript. The created image does not contain any test code or project. This is the environment for running test cases.

To run your test cases in this image

1. Install and set up your Docker environment
2. Pull the zekker6/protractor-headless image from DockerHub
3. If you have any environment variable which is used for your test project, provide here environment file.
4. You can see an example for execute your protractor tests in this Docker container at Makefile:

       docker run -it \
          --privileged \
          --rm \
          --net=host \
          --name cloud-e2e-runner \
          -v $(PWD):/protractor/project \
          zekker6/protractor-headless yarn test
   

   $(PWD) or pwd the root folder of your Protractor test project. The use of PWD is optional, you do not need to navigate to the Protractor test project root. If it is the case, you should add the full path of the root folder instead of the $(PWD).

Example project

Example project is located at Example folder, example run without compose can be found in Makefile.

Advanced options and information

--privileged

Chrome uses sandboxing, therefore if you try and run Chrome within a non-privileged container you will receive the following message:

"Failed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted".

The --privileged flag gives the container almost the same privileges to the host machine resources as other processes running outside the container, which is required for the sandboxing to run smoothly.

Note: chrome now will not run under root user into container, so either add user in docker or use the following in protractor config:

exports.config = {
  ...
  capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome',
    chromeOptions: {
      args: ['--no-sandbox']
    }
  },
};

_{Based on the Webnicer project.}

Run tests in CI

As you can see here the project contains a predefined bash script to automate launch and test environment setup before tests execution.

Here is the main part:

   export TEST_CONTAINER_NAME=cloud-e2e-runner
   
   BASE_URL_RESPONSE=$(curl -k --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null $BASE_URL/sl)
   echo $BASE_URL " HTTP status code is: " $BASE_URL_RESPONSE
   if [[ $BASE_URL_RESPONSE -ne 200 ]]; then
       echo $BASE_URL " Web GUI is not accessible!"
       RESULT=1
   else
       docker run -i \
           --privileged \
           --rm \
           --name $TEST_CONTAINER_NAME \
           --net=host \
           -v $(pwd):/protractor/project \
           -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm \
           zekker6/protractor-headless yarn test
           RESULT=$?
   fi
   exit $RESULT

Makefile

We created a very simple Makefile to be able build and run easily our Docker image on your local machine:

make build

then

make run

or you can run the above commands in one round:

make all

The rules are same as in case of To run your test cases in this image.

In-memory File System /dev/shm (Linux only)

Docker has hardcoded value of 64MB for /dev/shm. Error can be occurred, because of page crash on memory intensive pages. The easiest way to mitigate the problem is share /dev/shm with the host.

docker run -it --rm --name protractor-runner --env-file utils/testenv -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm -v $(PWD):/protractor/project sequenceiq/protractor-runner

The size of /dev/shm in the Docker container can be changed when container is made with option --shm-size.

For Mac OSX users this conversation can be useful.

_{Based on the Webnicer project.}

--net=host

This options is required only if the dockerised Protractor is run against localhost on the host.

Imagine this scenario: Run an http test server on your local machine, let's say on port 8000. You type in your browser http://localhost:8000 and everything goes smoothly. Then you want to run the dockerised Protractor against the same localhost:8000. If you don't use --net=host the container will receive the bridged interface and its own loopback and so the localhost within the container will refer to the container itself. Using --net=host you allow the container to share host's network stack and properly refer to the host when Protractor is run against localhost.

_{Based on the Webnicer project.}