Angular e2e tests
While unit tests focus on isolating the CUT, e2e tests are about integration testing. The Angular CLI leverages Protractor along with WebDriver so that you can write Automated Acceptance Tests (AAT) from the perspective of a user interacting with your application in a browser. As a rule of thumb, you should always write an order of magnitude more unit tests than AATs, because your app changes frequently, and as a result, AATs are vastly more fragile and expensive to maintain compared to unit tests.
If the term web driver sounds familiar, it's because it is an evolution of the canonical Selenium WebDriver. On March 30th, 2017, WebDriver was proposed as an official web standard at the W3C. You read more about it at https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver. If you're familiar with Selenium, you should feel right at home, since a lot of the patterns and practices are nearly identical.
The CLI provides e2e tests for the initial AppComponent
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