Protractor flakiness

Question

I maintain a complex Angular (1.5.x) application that is being E2E tested using Protractor (2.5.x). I am experiencing a problem with this approach, which presents primarily in t

Answer 1

It's been my experience that some methods (eg. sendKeys()) do not always fire at the expected time, within the controlFlow() queue, and will cause tests to be flakey. I work around this by specifically adding them to the controlFlow(). Eg:

this.enterText = function(input, text) {
    return browser.controlFlow().execute(function() {
        input.sendKeys(text);
    });
};