Hi Mark,
we had some automated tests in the app with Ionic 1, but they broke when we migrated the framework (in fact we didn't even migrate the code). They seemed to work quite fine, although they were a bit unreliable (sometimes they failed when they shouldn't).
I guess we'll try to get them back sooner or later (right now we've too many things in our short term roadmap).
Cheers,
Dani