run functional tests against phantomJS on travis since FF is not working as it should

Author: Bogdan Livadariu

.travis.yml

@@ -6,14 +6,11 @@ node_js:
 cache:
   directories:
     - node_modules/
-addons:
-  firefox: '42.0'
 install:
   - npm set progress=false
   - travis_retry npm install
 before_script:
   - npm install -g grunt-cli
-  - 'export DISPLAY=:99.0'
-  - 'sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start'
 script:
+  - node_modules/grunt-protractor-runner/node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager start &
   - npm test

example/protractor-conf.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 var config = {
-    directConnect: true,
     baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8000/',
+    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
     specs: [
       'spec/*.spec.js'
     ],
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ var config = {
 };
 
 if (process.env.TRAVIS) {
-  // Run FF on Travis
+  //Run PhantomJS on Travis
   config.capabilities = {
-    browserName: 'firefox'
+    browserName: 'phantomjs',
+    'phantomjs.binary.path': require('phantomjs').path,
+    'phantomjs.ghostdriver.cli.args': ['--loglevel=DEBUG'],
+    shardTestFiles: true,
+    maxInstances: 2
   };
 } else {
   config.capabilities = {

package.json

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.10.0",
     "grunt-jasmine-node": "~0.2.1",
     "grunt-protractor-runner": "^1.1.4",
-    "protractor": "2.5.1"
+    "phantomjs": "2.1.3",
+    "protractor": "~1.5.0"
   },
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",