Install Protractor on Windows
Overview
In this tutorial, we will learn the steps involved 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 for testing 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. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. To install and use the tool, we need to have Node.js installed on the machine. We can use the npm install command to install Protractor.
Steps to install Node.js on Windows operating system:
Download & Install Node.js On Windows
Install Protractor
Protractor install includes the following components:
- Protractor tool
- Protractor API
- webdriver-manager tool
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::
