Protractor + Jenkins , element not interactable

Question

On my local, I start e2e tests in Protractor and this is good. I have problem when I want start tests on Jenkins job.

• I pull tests from repo
• run command npm install
• run command node_modules\.bin\ng e2e --webdriver-update

My tests start execution and I have problem:

` W/element - more than one element found for locator by.buttonText("Create") - the first result will be used
[31m× Check Item in RAID Type drop-down-menu[39m
  [31m- [39m[31mFailed: element not interactable
    (Session info: chrome=69.0.3497.81)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591088 (7b2b2dca23cca0862f674758c9a3933e685c27d5),platform=Windows NT 6.2.9200 x86_64)[39m
    (Session info: chrome=69.0.3497.81)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591088 (7b2b2dca23cca0862f674758c9a3933e685c27d5),platform=Windows NT 6.2.9200 x86_64)
      at Object.checkLegacyResponse (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\newJob\NewGenProject\ui\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:546:15)
      at parseHttpResponse (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\newJob\NewGenProject\ui\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:509:13)
      at doSend.then.response (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\newJob\NewGenProject\ui\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:441:30)
      at <anonymous>
      at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:189:7)`

Answer 1

Assuming browser launches successfully and test is able to interact with any other element successfully before the element having issues.

Use explicit wait for the desired element as below:

browser.wait(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf($('NON-EXISTING-ELEMENT')), 3000, 'error message')

As it seems that element is not ready yet for interaction.Also if you share the code & relevant html snippet as well , then all might be able to suggest better solutions.

Answer 2

this is my Protractor code.

it('Creating default configuration ', () => {
        _home.getPowerConfiguration().click();

        _descriptionModel.buttonStartCreate().click();
        for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            _wizard.buttonNext().click();
        }
        _descriptionModel.buttonCreate().click();
        expect(_configuration.geImage().isDisplayed()).toBe(true).then(function (result) {
            expect(_configurationView.getNebu().count()).toBe(2);
            expect(_configurationView.getimage().count()).toBe(2);
            expect(_configurationView.getImage().isDisplayed()).toBe(true);
        });
    });

This is work on my local machine, but does not on Jenkins.