Protractor fails on 5th test listed in scenarios.js

[dcrouch79]

Just installed phonecat tutorial, node.js etc but when I run npm run protractor the 5th test seems to fail virtually every time - but not always. I'm running this on a fairly old laptop (using Lubuntu) so I wonder if that's the issue.

Here's the error in the terminal:

selenium standalone is up to date.
chromedriver is up to date.

> [email protected] protractor /home/david/angular-phonecat
> protractor test/protractor-conf.js

Using ChromeDriver directly...
....F..

Failures:

  1) PhoneCat App Phone detail view should display nexus-s page
   Message:
     Expected '' to be 'Nexus S'.
   Stacktrace:
     Error: Failed expectation
    at [object Object].<anonymous> (/home/david/angular-phonecat/test/e2e/scenarios.js:84:59)

Finished in 19.212 seconds
7 tests, 11 assertions, 1 failure


npm ERR! [email protected] protractor: `protractor test/protractor-conf.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] protractor script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     protractor test/protractor-conf.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls angular-phonecat
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-39-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "protractor"
npm ERR! cwd /home/david/angular-phonecat
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/david/angular-phonecat/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

If I comment out the 5th test within the scenarios.js file, shown below, then the rest of the tests succeed everytime:

it('should display nexus-s page', function() {
    expect(element(by.binding('phone.name')).getText()).toBe('Nexus S');
});

[petebacondarwin]

It seems strange that it passes sometimes.

[duncanatkinson]

I think this is because the tests are slowed down by the animations? i have fixed locally by disabling animation.