I'm currently writing some e2e tests for my humble Angular app with Protractor.

My app works fine, unit tests passes all, e2e used too... until this one:

appE2ESpec.js

describe('adding an item', function() {

  var items,

      addItemButton,

      startCount;



  beforeEach(function() {

    items = element.all(by.css('li.item'));

    addItemButton = element(by.id('addItemButton'));

    startCount = items.count();

  });



  it('should display a new item in list', function() {

    addItemButton.click();



    expect(items.count()).toEqual(startCount+1);

  });

});

This is how I would have written my test but,

The problem is: that items.count() returns a promise, I know that, but I can't manage to force Protractor to resolve it. So I get this:

Failures:



1) myApp adding an item should display a new item in list

  Message:

    Expected 6 to equal '[object Object]1'.

What I've tried:

items.count().then(function(count) {

  startCount = count;

  //console.log(startCount) --> 6 Perfect!

});

But got the same result at the end... I can't put the expect into the then, I thought about that too.

• I searched into Protractor GitHub repository issues, StackOverflow and Google AngularJs group.

Appendix:

console.log(startCount) outputs this :

{ then: [Function: then],

  cancel: [Function: cancel],

  isPending: [Function: isPending] }

I could have written .toEqual(6) but I don't want to rewrite my test each time I need to change my app startup state.

Any idea? Thanks in advance!!