diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c3c89edcd13..96180b09ba7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@
     "build": "node ./node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js",
     "start": "node ./node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --devtool eval",
     "test": "./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start",
-    "preinstall": "npm install -g bower@1.4.1"
+    "preinstall": "npm install -g bower@1.4.1",
+    "int": "protractor protractor.conf.js"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "angular-mocks": "^1.4.1",
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@
     "octicons": "^2.2.0",
     "phantomjs": "^1.9.17",
     "phantomjs-polyfill": "0.0.1",
+    "protractor": "^2.2.0",
     "select2": "git://github.com/select2/select2.git#3.4.8",
     "style-loader": "^0.12.3",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.6",
diff --git a/protractor.conf.js b/protractor.conf.js
index 377dbc2072f..837867db114 100644
--- a/protractor.conf.js
+++ b/protractor.conf.js
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 exports.config = {
-  seleniumServerJar: './node_modules/selenium-server/lib/runner/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar',
-  chromeDriver: './node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver/chromedriver',
-  //seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
-
   framework: 'jasmine',
-
-  baseUrl: 'http://0.0.0.0:9000',
+  troubleshoot: true,
+  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9000',
   specs: 'test/e2e/**/*.js',
   getPageTimeout: 20000,
   allScriptsTimeout: 20000,
-  //directConnect:true,
   capabilities: {
     'browserName': 'chrome',
   },
-  onPrepare: function() {
-    //browser.driver.manage().window().setSize(1500, 800);
-
-    require('jasmine-reporters');
-    jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(
-      new jasmine.JUnitXmlReporter('xmloutput', true, true)
-    );
+  // ----- Options to be passed to minijasminenode -----
+  jasmineNodeOpts: {
+    // If true, display spec names.
+    isVerbose: true,
+    // If true, print colors to the terminal.
+    showColors: true,
+    // If true, include stack traces in failures.
+    includeStackTrace: true,
+    // Default time to wait in ms before a test fails.
+    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
   }
 };
diff --git a/test/e2e/applications.e2e.js b/test/e2e/applications.e2e.js
index d3462773e03..cb05d756dff 100644
--- a/test/e2e/applications.e2e.js
+++ b/test/e2e/applications.e2e.js
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 'use strict';
 
 var page = require('../pages/applications.page.js');
-//var Modal = require('../pages/newApplication.modal.js');
-var Q = require('q');
-
 var newApplicationModal = require('../pages/newApplication.modal.js');
 
-describe('Applications Landing Page', function() {
+describe('Applications Landing Page - ', function() {
   var browserName;
 
   beforeEach(function(done) {
@@ -24,18 +21,18 @@ describe('Applications Landing Page', function() {
     };
   });
 
-  describe('Rerouting: ', function () {
+  describe('Rerouting - ', function () {
 
-    it('should redirect to /applications from /', function() {
+    it('should redirect to /#/applications from /', function() {
       browser.get('/');
       expect(page.header.getText()).toEqual('Applications');
     });
 
   });
 
-  describe('The Actions Button', function() {
+  describe('The Actions Button -', function() {
 
-    describe('Create Application', function () {
+    describe('Create Application -', function () {
 
       it('Click the Actions Button to display Create Application action', function(done) {
         this.openMenu().then(function() {
@@ -57,7 +54,7 @@ describe('Applications Landing Page', function() {
         }, console.log);
       });
 
-      describe('Test the new application modal form', function () {
+      describe('Test the new application modal form -', function () {
 
         afterEach(function() {
           newApplicationModal.resetForm();
@@ -67,12 +64,6 @@ describe('Applications Landing Page', function() {
           expect(newApplicationModal.submit.getAttribute('disabled')).not.toBe(null);
         });
 
-        it('should give a warning if the application name is not unique', function () {
-          newApplicationModal.typeName('deck');
-          expect(newApplicationModal.uniqueNameWarning.isPresent()).toBe(true);
-          expect(newApplicationModal.uniqueNameWarning.getText()).toContain('unique');
-        });
-
         it('takes a name, email, description and account', function() {
           newApplicationModal.typeName('deck_e2e_test_'+browserName);
           newApplicationModal.typeDescription('a deck test');
@@ -83,7 +74,6 @@ describe('Applications Landing Page', function() {
         });
 
         it('creates the application', function(done) {
-          // TODO: application creation is currently busted in prestaging
           newApplicationModal.typeName('deck.e2e.'+browserName);
           newApplicationModal.typeDescription('a deck test');
           newApplicationModal.typeEmail('delivery-engineering+deck-e2e@netflix.com');
diff --git a/test/pages/applications.page.js b/test/pages/applications.page.js
index 71c579dcf2d..1a15da71b60 100644
--- a/test/pages/applications.page.js
+++ b/test/pages/applications.page.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module.exports = {
   url: '#/applications',
   header: element(by.css('[data-purpose="view-header"]')),
-  menu: element(by.css('[data-purpose="applications-menu"] button')),
-  createApplicationMenuItem: element(by.css('[data-purpose="applications-menu"] li a')),
+  menu: element(by.buttonText('Actions')),
+  createApplicationMenuItem: element(by.linkText('Create Application')),
 };
diff --git a/test/pages/newApplication.modal.js b/test/pages/newApplication.modal.js
index 2c9404a25ce..73dcbb9b3fc 100644
--- a/test/pages/newApplication.modal.js
+++ b/test/pages/newApplication.modal.js
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@ module.exports = {
   header: element(by.css('[data-purpose="modal-header"]')),
   description: element(by.css('[data-purpose="application-description"]')),
   email: element(by.css('[data-purpose="application-email"]')),
-  name: element(by.css('[data-purpose="application-name"]')),
+  name: element(by.name('name')),
   uniqueNameWarning: element(by.css('.error-message')).element(by.tagName('span')),
-  //prod: element(by.css('[data-purpose="application-accounts"] [value="prod"]')),
-  prod: element(by.cssContainingText('option', 'prod')),
   submit: element(by.css('[data-purpose="submit"]')),
   accountSelectBox: element(by.css('.select2-input')),
 
@@ -24,10 +22,6 @@ module.exports = {
     this.description.sendKeys(description) ;
   },
 
-  selectProdAccount: function () {
-    return this.prod.click();
-  },
-
   selectTestAccount: function () {
     this.accountSelectBox.click().then(function() {
       element(by.css('li#ui-select-choices-row-0-0 div span')).click();