AWS Device Farm vs. Protractor

AWS Device Farm is perfect for small teams who don't have enough resources to conduct large scale testing scenarios or even large teams who would like an easier time with testing on various devices. [AWS] Device Farm makes it very easy to interact with a multitude of devices right from the browser.

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It is a strong fit for end-to-end acceptance and regression testing inside the browser.

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• 100% compatibility with the installed user base. No simulation, but real results.
• Integration with Jenkins and other CI/CD tools.
• A considerable amount of device types available. Again, real devices in the cloud!

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• Async operations for browser-based validation tests. This kind of feature is a must-have for building tests to scale.

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• To be Frank, I have not found any room where it needs to improve. As whatever we used, It is useful for us

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• It would be great to see the Protractor API implemented successfully inside a non-Angular web application.

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We had the enterprise support with AWS, so overall support experience was good with great engineers on the back providing answers. As you may know, overall AWS support is different and this is not different. Responses through the regular web support channel came easily, fast and accurate. We had questions/issues which were solved fast. Documentation is good as well, especially around the test automation pieces.

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We haven't used anything like AWS Device Farm before. I am familiar with Amazon Web Services and when we had our MVP ready to test, we turned to AWS for a solution. AWS Device Farm was exactly what we were looking for as we have a really small team and limit resources.

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Cypress.io is an alternative end-to-end test framework that does NOT use Selenium. Since I've only evaluated this tool as a possible solution, my estimation of its performance against Protractor is incomplete. However, if you and your team are looking for automation solutions outside of the Selenium scope, then Cypress.io may be a good fit given the problems you're trying to solve.

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• It impact more and more. Not in terms of ROI but in time as well

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• Increased the number of reliable end to end tests inside my test suites.
• Decreased the number and frequency of false-positive test runs/results.

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