Protractor E2E Test Seed Database

Question

I haven\'t found a good way of doing this so hoping someone has some ideas. Is there any way to seed the database with test data before running a E2E Protractor test?

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Answer 1

Being in a NodeJs environment, you can connect to the database directly from Protractor, but I wouldn't go down that route. You'll have to update your SQL-setup-script along with your changes to your back-end.

There are other ways:

1. Use your existing REST facade to populate your database - register a user, connect with another user, etc. If you set-up each of your tests with unique data you would be able to run them simultaneously that way.
2. Expose to your test environment a special REST point that does all the clearing/setting-up for you between tests.

You can fire REST calls directly from the Protractor environment or use your browser for that.