javascript - How to, so to speak, restart or close browser after every protractor -spec test

Question

I am implementing Protractor test for a web app. I have done some google searching but I have come up with zip, I want to every spec that I create to close the browser after it has ran all of the test in that specific spec file and then continue on to the next -spec file, etc. I've things such as using "beforeAll" and "afterAll" but Jasmine doesn't recognize these methods. A point in the right direction would be awesome!

describe('i will put something more meaningful here later :)', function () {

//not sure if this method actually exist in Jasmine
afterAll(function () {
   //restart browser or something of the nature
});

it('should do stuff', function () {

});

it('do stuff', function () {

});

});

browser should then close, and then open back up to run the next spec.

Answer 1

Speaking about restarting browser between tests, there is a relevant configuration option:

// If true, protractor will restart the browser between each test.
// CAUTION: This will cause your tests to slow down drastically.
restartBrowserBetweenTests: false,

Set it to true.

FYI, Here is the initial feature request:

• Feature Request: to have an option to restart new browser session between each test case/scenario

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beforeAll and afterAll are built into jasmine-2.x. To make them work, you need to set jasmine2 as a testing framework in the protractor config:

exports.config = {
    ...
    framework: 'jasmine2',
    ...
}

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For jasmine-1.x, there is a third-party jasmine-beforeAll package that provides the same exact functionality.