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Suites vs Specs Protractor

rated 0 times [ 81] [ 2] / answers: 1 / hits: 17786 / 9 Years ago, tue, may 19, 2015, 12:00:00

I have recently picked up a project using Protractor.

I am having troubles understand the difference between a suite and a specs. I am also having trouble with a suites when I am running a folder of test's after that folder is ran I run another folder of test and it fails all the test. Any help would be great listed below is what or suite looks like.

Example:

suites: {

    CSRSmokeTest: '../smoke/Video/**.js'

    DesktopSmokeTest: '../smoke/deskTop/**.js'

},

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answered 9 Years ago alanisannettep · Accepted Answer

Suites are incredibly useful for organizing your tests.

The question actually goes down to differences between a suite and a test case in general. Quote from the wikipedia Test suite definition:

a collection of test cases that are intended to be used to test a
software program to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.
A test suite often contains detailed instructions or goals for each
collection of test cases and information on the system configuration
to be used during testing.

In other words, a test suite is a collection of specs/testcases united by a common property, logic. For instance, you may have suites for different types of functionality of your application, homepage, search etc:

suites: {

  homepage: 'tests/e2e/homepage/**/*Spec.js',

  search: [

    'tests/e2e/contact_search/**/*Spec.js',

    'tests/e2e/venue_search/**/*Spec.js'

  ] 

},

And/or, you may have specs grouped into suites by the type of tests:

suites: {

  smoke: 'tests/e2e/smoke/*.js',

  performance: 'tests/e2e/performance/*.js'

},

Or, you may put all of your regression tests into a separate suite. Or, you can apply your own logic to group specs.

It is important to note that a single spec can be a part of multiple test suites.