Install Protractor on Windows
Overview
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install the Protractor tool on the Windows operating system. Protractor is an end-to-end (e-2-e) test framework. It is mostly used to test Angular and AngularJS web applications. Protractor runs tests against the web application under test (WAUT) in a real web browser.
Protractor is a Node.js software package, which is a JavaScript runtime environment. To install and use the tool, we need to have Node.js installed on the machine. To install Protractor, we can use the npm install command.
Steps to install Node.js on the Windows operating system:
Install Protractor
The Protractor installation includes the following components:
- Protractor tool
- Protractor API
- webdriver-manager tool
The steps to install Protractor are as follows:
Open a Command prompt.
Issue the following command to install the tool on the machine.
\> npm install protractor
To install the tool globally, use the -g flag as shown below:
\> npm install -g protractor
Verify the Install
To verify the install, issue the following command. This command prints the protractor version onto the console window.
\> protractor –version
That’s it. We have successfully installed the tool on the Windows machine.
Official Website
More information on Protractor can be found on the official website::
