Running protractor tests on IE 11 - linux

Question

OK, so I have been searching a lot to get proper solution to the blocker I am facing right now. Let me give you a background of what I have done so far :
I want to run protractor tests (located on Linux machine) on IE 11 of Windows Server 2012 R2 (IP : 10.81.73.248). My protractorTest.conf.js has below :
exports.config = {
seleniumAddress: 'http://10.81.73.248:4444/wd/hub',
baseURL: 'http://10.81.78.137:80000/',
capabilities: {
browserName: 'internet explorer',
platform: 'ANY',
version: '11'
},
On my Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, I've downloaded IEDriverServer_Win32_2.47.0 and placed it under C:\Windows\System32, environment variable PATH has been updated with above location. Protected mode settings are same for all zones. Windows machine also has selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar placed under C:\Users\Selenium.
On Windows machine, I am starting selenium server using below command :
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -port 4444 -Dwebdriver.ie.driver="C:\Windows\System32\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.47.0\IEDriverServer.exe" , which starts selenium server fine.
With above settings, I run protractor tests from my Linux machine using grunt protractor_test, which launches IE browser on Windows machine, shows localhost:dynamic port and a message as : This is the initial page of webdriver server and within 2 seconds, closes the browser.
The exception I get on selenium server terminal is as below :
Session ID is null. Using WebDriver after calling quit() ?
This is where I am stuck at. I looked at various posts which describes similar issue (?) as mine along with the potential solution, but I am unable to resolve my issue here.
Is there anything I might be doing wrong to setup the connections ? or am I missing some steps to get me through ?
I would really appreciate if you guide me in resolving this long time pending blocker.

Answer 1

I think you are trying to run using old selenium version.It should be 2.53.x something.
Few basics things to check first regarding IE execution:
1).IE Setting for protractor(Selenium)
http://elgalu.github.io/2014/run-protractor-against-internet-explorer-vm/
2).Take IE driver of 32 bit(don't take 64 it has known slowness issues) and manually copy on the following path:
Root Folder\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.53.1
3). IE Driver can be downloaded from following path:
http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.53/
**OR**
Please upgrade your protractor version to latest like 4.0.11 by changing the version in package.json file and do from command prompt(inside project root directory):
npm update
and then give update your selenium driver with following command from command prompt
webdriver-manager update --ie
it will update the selenium version of IE driver to latest and then try running your tests again.