Writing Selenium tests in JS for Angular testing: benefits and pitfalls

While creating Selenium tests for modern web application QAs often face difficulties with element locators or with waiters which detect page stabilization as server responses are processed. For applications written with Angular Protractor framework was designed to help with this, but there is a price: you will have to create scenarios in JavaScript. In this talk we will cover some common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and, ultimately, if it is possible to avoid Protractor altogether without losing its benefits.