Sleep() or Pause() functionality

[angular]

Sleep() or Pause() functionality

[davemo]

Protractor already supports this functionality, https://github.com/juliemr/protractor/issues/27#issuecomment-20837485

[juliemr]

I think this request is slightly different - this is for putting in pauses to allow activity to be observed, not just making sure the test doesn't time out too quickly.

I think a better way of putting this is "there should be a way to pause so one can interact with the site / debug". Angular scenario runner has this feature.

[juliemr]

OK - this is now enabled by starting with the command line protractor debug <conf.js> and adding ptor.debugger() in the code where you'd like to pause. See 7a59479 - more documentation coming soon!

[juliemr]

Documentation: https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/debugging.md

The ptor.debugger() method will be included in the 0.8.0 release later this week!

[edrex]

The original request is for a way to insert a brief pause in the test, rather than a way to pause for debugging purposes.

For example, I have a controller which persists the innerHtml of a contentEditable element to indexedDb after each key stroke. There is a timing-dependence in my tests which sometimes causes the last typed letter not to be saved. I'd like to introduce a 10ms pause in the test to ensure that the save occurs.

[edrex]

http://blog.activelylazy.co.uk/2012/01/29/testing-asynchronous-applications-with-webdriverwait/

this.