Issues with using phantomJs and protractor - angularjs

Question

I am using protractor along with PhantomJs for e2e testing of my angular app.
Currently I am testing a login form. All the test work fine when I am simply checking
whether the form loaded correctly
username/password fields are empty
errors are displayed when you enter incorrect authentication information.
So far phantomJs and protractor have been quiet cooperative
However the below mentioned test cases simply fails all the time in protractor. I have tried various permutation and combinations but to no avail.
when the user enters correct authentication information in the login form, the angular app will change the route to dashboard section. i.e the url in the browser window would change from
http://localhost:12345/#/signin/
to
http://localhost:12345/#/dashboard
When I run the below give test, I know that the authentication was successful because the server logs display a success response object sent. Upon receiving this response, the angular app should have changed the route to /dashboard. However protractor fails to capture this change in route.
My test looks like below:
describe("SignOn Page - Performing authentication with valid credentials ",function(){
var ptor;
beforeEach(function(){
ptor = protractor.getInstance();
ptor.get('#/signon');
ptor.findElement(protractor.By.id('username')).sendKeys('joe');
ptor.findElement(protractor.By.id('password')).sendKeys('pass');
element(by.partialButtonText('Sign In')).click();
ptor.waitForAngular();
});
it("should re-direct user to dashboard page once the user enters correct authentication information",function(){
ptor = protractor.getInstance();
expect(ptor.getCurrentUrl()).toContain('dashboard');
expect(ptor.getTitle()).toContain('dashboard');
});
});
My question to this forum is, does protractor have issues changing states ? I am using ui.router in my angular application ?

Answer 1

I had the same issue because I was using phantomJS 1.9.x and not the 2.x
So you need to uninstall phantomjs 1.9
npm remove -g phantomjs
and install phantomJS 2.x
npm install -g phantomjs2
Hope it's also solve your issue