restartBrowserBetweenTests feature is not working in protractor 4.0.10

[mmraghavendra]

I have tests as below. Test1 succeeds but Test2 which is same as Test1 always fails with below error (windows.angular is undefined) when restartBrowserBetweenTests is set to true in protractor conf file. Both the tests always pass when restartBrowserBetweenTests is set to false in protractor conf file.

Please look into this issue and suggest me solution for the same.

Also the error is very confusing saying windows.angular is undefined when we are already setting browser.ignoreSynchronization=true at the beginning of the test.

Error

Failed: Error while waiting for Protractor to sync with the page: "window.angular is undefined. This could be either because this is a non-angular page or because your test involves client-side navigation, which can interfere with Protractor's bootstrapping. See http://git.io/v4gXM for details"

spec.js

describe('github homepage', function() {
it('Test1', function() {
browser.ignoreSynchronization=true;
browser.get("https://github.com/");
element(by.xpath("//input[@aria-label='Search GitHub']")).sendKeys('myrepo');
browser.sleep(5000);
});

it('Test2', function() {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization=true;
    browser.get("https://github.com/");
    element(by.xpath("//input[@aria-label='Search GitHub']")).sendKeys('myrepo');
    browser.sleep(5000);
});

});

[harsha509]

Hi There,

Facing the similar issue. restartBrowserBetweenTests feature is not working in protractor 4.0.10

[NickTomlin]

This looks like it's covered by #3677 (comment) I'm going to close this to consolidate. Feel free to follow up there!