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Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would. | Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as… |
Test Like a User; For Angular Apps; Automatic Waiting | The test scripts are written in Ruby language;
It supports multiple domains and has a test recorder;
It can find elements by its name, index, ID or value. |
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