How Do I Overwrite Protractor.conf.js Values From The Command Line?

I currently have protractor setup to run on our integration server. Inside the protractor.conf.js file i have the following: multiCapabilities: [{ 'browserName': 'firefox',

Solution 1:

This is a problem.

According to the source code, browser command line argument is an alias of capabilities.browserName.

According to the referenceConf.js documentation:

// If you would like to run more than one instance of WebDriver on the same
// tests, use multiCapabilities, which takes an array of capabilities.
// If this is specified, capabilities will be ignored.
multiCapabilities: [],

In other words, since multiCapabilities are specified, capabilities are ignored.

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What you can try to do is to reset multiCapabilities from command-line:

protractor --verbose --browser=chrome --multiCapabilities

As an another workaround, have a separate config file for running a single browser instance.

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Also, list of related topics:

• Added support for multiCapabilities object and splitTestsBetweenCapabilities boolean
• Multicapabilities specs ignore the --specs flag on the command line and run anyway